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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...
Latest betting news on the Magic Millions carnival at the Gold Coast: One TAB Sportsbet customer is hoping Ambers Waltz can win the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Saturday. Outlaying $15,000 the cus...
Top mare Secret Admirer could deliver one TAB Sportsbet customer a massive windfall if she can win the Doncaster Mile on Saturday. The 4YO is the last leg of a three-leg racing multi, in which the ...
Wide open...That's the early betting on the 'second go' Australian Cup at Flemington on Saturday. TAB Sportsbet has Heart of Dreams at $6.50 from the newly-reinstated Shocking at $7.50. The market ...
Heart Of Dreams and Predatory Pricer have been backed in early trading for Sat's Liston Stakes, according to TAB Sportsbet. It says Heart Of Dreams was supported with a wager of $3000 e/w @ $7.50 b...
Many and varied indeed are the views held worldwide about money management, or staking, in horse-racing. Ask an Aussie about staking and you're likely to get a different answer to what you'd hear ...
John Mack examines the pro betting issue. Last month, I discussed how 'new' punters get into the racing game, and how they might find their way around. Firstly, they take everyone else opinion,...
Trainer Mick Price believes Heart Of Dreams is drawn to get the run of the race and is a chance to turn the tables on Typhoon Tracy in Saturday's CF Orr Stakes on his home track at Caulfield.Heart ...