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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...
WA jockey William Pike has been licensed to ride in Hong Kong. He's one of five Australian jockeys given licences to ride there next season. Darren Beadman will be retained again by John Moore whil...
Boom jockey William Pike has arrived in Hong Kong with the West Australian jockey's premiership already in his keeping.Pike, 23, answered an SOS from Hong Kong which is running short of riders for ...
Hong Kong-based Australian jockeys Nash Rawiller and Zac Purton are about to rack-up some frequent-flyer points. Rawiller has accepted an invitation from Chris Waller to ride Carbine Club Stakes ...
American Aaron Gryder, who won the Dubai World Cup, and Australian William Pike have answered a call from the Jockey Club to ride at the final meetings of the season and alleviate the jockey shorta...
Brett Prebble will ride in Melbourne for the second successive Saturday after being booked to partner Dao Dao in the Group One Futurity Stakes at Flemington.The former Victorian, now based in Hong ...
Hong Kong based jockey Brett Prebble will return to Flemington on Saturday to ride the Gai Waterhouse-trained Wandjina in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m). A nother expat hoop now riding i...
From RACING POST in Hong Kongwww.racing.scmp.comBrett Prebble may have hit the front of the jockeys' premiership with a double yesterday, but a two-meeting suspension incurred in the opening race w...
Nash Rawiller celebrated his 36th birthday in style with a winner in Hong Kong on Wednesday night.Sydney's premier jockey represented Australia in the International Jockeys' Championship at Happy V...