Off The Scale Horse

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Will we see female jockeys dominating raciing in a few years' time? Kate Mallyon reckons we will. On the comeback trail from some grim injuries, Kate has been sounding off about the 'weight power' ...

Sometimes the ordinary punter is mystified by things that really should be second nature. One of those is the matter of weights in racing. Weight for age is only a name. Don't be frightened by it...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...