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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...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
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 ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...
Bookmakers offer Punters a huge array of bet types, in differnt betting markets across so the different codes in sports betting and horse racing. Any new punters have the right to be confused. ...
IT TAKES ALL TYPESI met this fellow, Ralph (that's not his real name) on Saturday at Randwick.As is my wont, I was meandering around looking for an angle and for somebody to chat with. I'm given so...
One of the most frustrating bet types is the First Four. Since last Spring I have been zigging and zagging with this bet form and I am still coming to grips with the best way of tackling it. There ...
Star New Zealand three-year-old Jimmy Choux is a rock-solid $2.05 fav to add to his "picket fence" of wins in Sat's Grp 1 AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. Betstar's Alan Eskander says the horse ca...
Of all the forms of exotic betting in Australia, perhaps the one most rapidly gaining enormous popularity is the trifecta. We get letters from people all across the nation asking for ideas on how...
As I write this, so far this calendar year there have been 128 races of the types that I like to recommend and prefer to bet on. I'm talking about the Group races (1, 2 and 3), the Special Conditi...
A professional punter I know reckons the trifecta remains the best way to get big profits on Australian racing, but he says the exacta runs a close second. He warns, though, that “exacta science”...
Merry Christmas and A Happy Boxing Day!I do hope your Chrissie Day was a bottler, and that it all ended safely and happily.So what's on the agenda for the weekend?A special bet?One you've been swea...