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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...
Will Glen Boss be riding at Sat's big Golden Slipper meeting at Rosehill? Looks unlikely. He's copped a suspension of 10 meetings for careless riding on Hearts And Arrows in the Belmark Rural 3YO M...
Dream Ahead failed to fire as Moonlight Cloud struck a blow for three-year-old fillies by taking the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville.Trained by champion mare Goldikova's mentor Freddie Head, sh...
Punters can overdo the "what might happen" scenario to the point where far too many doubts cloud their form work. This weekend yours truly really showed how this "works" with two examples that cost...
FIVE European horses remain in the picture to participate in The Championships. Connections of Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden, twice Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux, Mackinnon Sta...
An injury sustained after a brilliant barrier trial win has ended the racing career of record-breaking sprinter De Lightning Ridge.Moments after showing why she was regarded as one of Sydney's best...
Star sprinter Burdekin Blues has been ruled out of the Brisbane winter carnival with a back injury leaving Saturday's Eagle Farm contenders Simplest and Racing Pegasus to fly the stable flag for tr...
What exactly is class? We hear about it all the time, and not only in racing. Class is what makes things cost more than others, and what makes some people think they are better than others (they h...