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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...
GOLDEN Slipper winner Sepoy is almost certain to leave Australian shores within the next 12 months - setting up the possibility of a mouth-watering clash with Black Caviar at Royal Ascot in 2012, r...
Unbounded joy surrounded Sepoy's win in the Golden Slipper as the Darley camp celebrated Sheikh Mohammed's biggest win in Australia at Rosehill on Saturday.In stark contrast, trainer Anthony Cummin...
Unbeaten colt Sepoy has thrashed his rivals in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes to give Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation its most important two-year-old success in Australia so far.The colt was...
The Jockey Club will declare "weighed in" today on the two of hottest favourites in racing - that Kim Kelly will take over from the departing Jamie Stier as chief steward and Sydney-based steward S...
Sepoy is unlikely to be rushed onto the international racing stage despite confirming his dominance of Australian juvenile racing with his Golden Slipper triumph.Talk that Sepoy would join other Au...
AFTER temporarily being put in the shade by the unbeaten Smart Missile's remarkable win at Rosehill on Saturday, champion three-year-old Sepoy is poised to re-claim the spotlight this Saturday at F...
Hong Kong racing authorities will conduct an inquiry into the Chris Munce money-for-tips scandal on Monday, with the jockey to give evidence via a video link from the offices of Racing NSW.Munce, w...
IF ANYONE needed reminding that Australia is the home of some of the world's fastest sprinters yesterday's trial win at Cranbourne by brilliant sprinter Sepoy was evidence enough, reports The Age. ...
Star colt Sepoy has posted a comprehensive win in the Group One Manikato Stakes at a rain soaked Moonee Valley.He became the first three-year-old since Redoute's Choice in 1999 to win the 1200m wei...
HIS farewell to Australia may not promote another ''free day'' at the races, but super colt Sepoy is poised to remind racegoers later this month Black Caviar is not the only champion in Australian ...