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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...
The Blue Diamond Stakes has been ruled out for highly-rated Golden Slipper prospect Satin Shoes.Four-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer Clarry Conners had said he was leaning towards keeping the u...
Impressive debut winner Beneteau will head to Melbourne early next week to prepare for a tilt at the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes.Trainer Paul Messara confirmed the decision had been made to targ...
Are they going to dump her? This is the question hanging over Miracles of Life jockey Lauren Stojakovic as the countdown continues to the Blue Diamond. Latest news is that trainer Daniel Clarken sa...
Peter Snowden expects his Prelude runners Rusambo and Applegate to show they are genuine Blue Diamond contenders when they resume at Caulfield.Rusambo is a firming favourite from $3.80 to $2.70 for...
Betting markets across the country view the Blue Diamond Stakes as a one-horse race after Peter Moody announced that second favourite One Last Dance would be a non-runner.In response most betting a...
Momma Mia, here we go again...Can David Hayes hit the big-time with his impressive Caulfield winner Mama's Choice? It looks like the Blua Diamond is within her grasp. She has firmed immediately fro...
After a clean sweep of last season's Group One juvenile events the Darley team begins its assault on this year's Blue Diamond series on Australia Day.Stable rider Kerrin McEvoy will head to Caulfie...
Diamond Glow made history when she overcame a tough run to win the $150,000 VOBIS Gold Carat (1000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.Sold by Magic Millions as a weanling and a yearling, Diamond Glow is th...
Tony McEvoy has engaged Sydney-based Blake Shinn to ride Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Jimando who resumes in Saturday's Chairman's Stakes at Caulfield.The trainer is looking to Shinn to partner th...