Streak Of Power 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...

Veteran Vision And Power will break new ground and a two-year losing streak if successful in Saturday's Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill.The Joe Pride-trained eight-year-old has not won since he snare...

It's not quite the winning streak of stablemate Black Caviar but Power O'Raylee has been stringing a few wins together too and is out to make it six straight in Wednesday's $300,000 Mornington Cup....

Expectations are high about much-maligned sprinter Snappy Tom ending a 31-month losing streak.Jockey Craig Newitt has warmed to the Danielle Chapman-trained seven-year-old after riding him at his l...

There's probably nothing more depressing than hitting a losing run at the races. Well, maybe losing your job while holding a $250,000 mortgage could be considered a little more depressing, but you...

Nerve? What's that? A bit of cheek? Not quite the same. Nerve is the thing that gives us the power to carry on. It's the strength to make yet another bet in the face of a fierce losing streak, to...

Luck. It's the second most famous four letter word in the world. Or is it the third, behind love and that other one. Whatever ... luck means everything to punters. Without luck we are usually los...