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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...
A new generation of two-year-olds will step out at Randwick on Saturday with the running of the time-honoured Breeders' Plate and Gimcrack Stakes.The first juvenile races of the season in Sydney, t...
Trainer Bryan Guy will use Saturday's Doomben meeting as a springboard towards the longer carnival races for Shuffle The Cash.The gelding will step out in the Mark Timms, The Good Guys Ipswich Open...
Trainer Peter Snowden says Victoria Derby favourite Retrieve will take improvement out of the Norman Robinson Stakes at Caulfield.Snowden said he was mindful of timing the preparation of the Rahy c...
Greg Eurell believes talented four-year-old Mic Mac has what is required to measure up in what will be his first weight-for-age test in Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.The four-year-old, by S...
Guelph's little brother Ghibellines commenced his autumn carnival with a barrier trial win at Rosehill Gardens on Tuesday morning. Trainer Peter Snowden indicated the Shamardal colt would be give...
Making the step into Class One for the first time is never easy but few horses make the transition off a platform as spectacular as Golden Harvest's lead-up victory on the way to the Happy Valley...
Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...
A resurgent Cavalryman met the specialist demands of the Sussex Downs better than his opponents as he led home Ahzeemah in an Artemis Goodwood Cup one-two for trainer Saeed bin Suroor overnight in...
The eleven European horses who arrived at Werribee on Saturday are settling well into their new surroundings in the Newminster Stables at the TAB International Horse Centre. Just a light outing i...