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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...
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys defended the scheduling of the $10 million The Everest, claiming its timing could prove a boon for Melbourne's Spring Carnival, reports racing.com. The a...
Lee Freedman is leaving his options open with promising young stayer Mount Everest.Freedman, who returned from the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sales on Monday, entered Mount Everest for the ...
Newmarket Handicap plans for top Bendigo galloper Tollesprit remained on track today when he scored a thrilling last stride win in the Schweppervescence Plate (1200m) at Moonee Valley A brilliant f...
TRAINER Pat Hyland confirmed plans for a tilt at the $750,000 group 1 Australian Guineas (1600 metres) at Flemington on Saturday week for progressive colt Shanghai Warrior after he scored a tough w...
It won’t be as early as first planned, but Victorian racing fans will at least get to see star colt Rich Enuff in action during the Relaxed Racing period, reports Racing Victoria. The $1 millio...
Shanghai Warrior defied the flow of money for the favurites to win the Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington. Zamorar was the one best backed to take out the event ($4.20 into $3.20), while the favor...
The Mick Price-trained Tribunal has significant gear changes as he makes a push to regain Victoria Derby favouritism against arch rival Shamoline Warrior in the Group Three Norman Robinson Stakes a...
Mick Price says classy mare Dubleanny will have no excuses when she chases her first Group One success in the Sportingbet Classic at Morphettville."I can't have her any better," the Caulfield train...