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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 Queensland stewards have hit Damian Browne with a six week ban for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures aboard Kingtantes at a recent Eagle Farm meeting. Browne plea...
Jockey Damian Browne made a triumphant comeback to the saddle following recent leg surgery with a victory aboard Troubled at Eagle Farm.Browne, who is restricted to only four rides a meeting becaus...
Jockey Damian Browne missed the major part of the winter carnival through suspension but made up for it at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Browne was in outstanding form and notched a winning treble when he...
Premier trainer Chris Waller is on the verge of celebrating another century of Sydney winners in a season following a double at Canterbury on Wednesday.Victories to Writteninthestars and Disciple t...
Jockey Damian Browne expects gun three-year-old Ready To Rip to send a message to his winter carnival rivals in the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday.Browne is confident Ready To Rip can s...
Damian Lane’s riding career has taken an unexpected turn with the 21-year-old offered a contract to ride in Hong Kong for the final three months of the season. Lane will take up the exclusive p...
The reduction of Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm operation continues with the news the embattled multi-millionaire is closing the doors on the enterprise's Victorian base. Tinkler Group chief execut...
It seems nothing can stop the astonishing winning run of trainer Darren Weir , who is well on his way to breaking the Commonwealth record for winners in a season following another dominant weeken...
Damian Browne threw a scare into the Woorim camp ahead of his bid for successive Group One wins in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday when the jockey narrowly avoided serious injury a...