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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...
Latest Melbourne Cup betting report: Americain continues to shorten following 2nd declarations. He's easily been the best backed runner firming from $4.60 into $4.20 and then down further to $4.00....
Lone Rock is a sharp betting firmer for the Manikato Stakes on Oct 26 after an unlucky unplaced run behind Buffering in the Schillaci 1000m at Caulfield. Betstar's Alan Eskander told PPD: 'With no ...
Superstar Pierro has firmed ($4.80 into $4.40) to win the Cox Plate despite not running on Saturday. TAB's Matt Jenkins told PPD: 'Stablemate More Joyous (who was heavily backed to win the Sheraco ...
HAWKSPUR ($4.80) has drifted in the betting after drawing barrier 16 for the Caulfield Cup, but TAB reports that he has been the most popular runner today. The Chris Waller-trained four-year-old...
The argument over each way betting never goes away, does it? A reader from Perth raised the matter with me in a letter just recently. He said that he'd read in PPM that each way betting was bad b...
While Australia can lay to claim to having some of the best thoroughbreds in the world, its betting industry – one of the fundamental elements of racing – is many lengths inferior to that of oth...
Top bookies are impressed by So You Think - so impressed that they are playing very safe with the superstar. Betstar's Alan Eskander says SYT's Yalumba win was just as impactful on Melbourne Cup be...
Bailing out of Sydney racing...The SMH reports that Australia's biggest bookmaker, Con Kafataris, is abandoning the Sydney betting ring with the on-course wagering market in free fall and the futur...
I’ve long held to the belief that you can learn something from everyone, no matter his or her station in life, or geographic location. The thinking really applies to horseracing betting. I’ve sea...
Progression betting. Ugh, I can bear some of you say. Please, not progression betting. It doesn't work! And neither does target betting, and so on. To which I reply: Why not? Anyone who has prope...