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Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...
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 ...
In the second article in this series, Jon Hudson looks at doubles betting, and other forms of exotic bets, using information contained in Malcolm Knowles' book The Good Betting & Racing Guide, whi...
When we talk about the 'exotics' in the world of betting we mean doubles, trebles, quinellas, exactas, First 4s, quadrellas, Superfectas and 6-Picks. In other words, the bets outside the usual win...
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...
If you're like many of my friends, you love betting on doubles and trifectas. In other words, when it comes to exotic betting you're an easy touch. Trouble is, most of my pals fail to approach t...
Let's have some fun with those exotic bets ... quinellas, trifectas, doubles, exactas and so on. I think we often tend to take them too seriously when, in fact, it might be better all round if we ...
THE EXOTICS-WHICH ONE FOR ME? In this article I plan to show that exotic bets over more than one race, like doubles and trebles, have the potential of providing more value than quinellas and tri...
Trifectas continue to be the most appealing form of 'exotic' betting to Aussie punters - and little wonder. They offer the chance of big returns for a relatively small outlay. Why is it, then, th...
Professional punters who once scoffed at quinellas as a 'serious ' method of wagering are changing their tune now that exactas are becoming the 'in thing', especially on the NSW TAB. They say exa...
Each week in Australia, punters go on a betting frenzy with trifecta betting. It is a highly popular form of betting, and yet it's the one that most punters don't really understand. Professionals...
Betting against crowd is something we have talked about many times in P.P.M. In this article, Alan Jacobs tells how Dennis Walker, of the Rating Bureau, shoots for windfall with his exotic bets. ...