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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 AJC Australian Oaks was billed as a virtual match race between glamour fillies Faint Perfume and Valdemoro but in the end the Group One Classic belonged to the Gai Waterhouse-trained Once Were ...
CRACK colts More Than Great and So You Think added a new dimension to the feature spring three-year-olds' classics when hitting the line locked together in yesterday's Ming Dynasty Quality at Randw...
Peter Moody missed out on the half-brother to his champion mare Black Caviar but the trainer still walked away from the Australian Easter Yearling Sale with his pick of the colts.Moody paid $850,00...
The Randwick Guineas has been added to the autumn program for star filly Mosheen who beat the colts and geldings to claim Saturday's Australian Guineas at Flemington.Part-owner Phil Sly said the fi...
Brett Cavanough says he is happy to be taking on unbeaten Golden Archer with Bossdon City in Wednesday's Blue Diamond Preview at Caulfield.The Beautiful Crown gelding, a $50,000 purchase at last ye...
Chad Schofield achieved the aim of every apprentice jockey today when he partnered promising filly Brand New Choice to victory in the $35,000 Essendon Hyundai i20 Handicap (1000m) at Moonee Vall...
Trainer Tony Vasil has confirmed his intentions with the beautifully-bred Altius by entering him for the Victoria Derby and taking him out of the Caulfield Guineas.After the Redoute's Choice colt f...
Michael Rodd is NSW born and Victorian based but he has picked up the plum Reisling Stakes mount on Military Rose because he is a "Queenslander".Trainer Gillian Heinrich confirmed Rodd had beaten o...
The countdown to Sydney's richest race of the spring will begin in earnest at Rosehill on Saturday with three of the top fancies for the $1 million Golden Rose set to clash in a vital lead-up race....