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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...
Lord Monty earned a trip to Tasmania to contest the Thomas Lyons Stakes on Hobart Cup day with his win in the Paint Handicap at Sandown on Saturday.The Strategic four-year-old broke through for his...
Trent Wells is free to ride Pentiffic in the AV Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley after having one jumps race shaved off a two-race careless riding suspension on appeal on Friday.The Racing App...
Plenty of big runs from the fillies at Caulfield on Saturday over the 1100m of the Quezette (Metonymy and Mosheen in particular!), but for my Thousand Guineas preview, I'd prefer to focus on five o...
Cranbourne trainer Ray Besanko will make a decision on Tuesday about whether the speedy Jeteven runs in Saturday's Redelva Handicap at Caulfield.The $90,000 sprint is run over 1100m and attracted 2...
A horse who failed as a jumper 10 months ago is set to provide the fairytale story of the Standish Handicap, the feature summer sprint at Flemington.Adelaide trainer Jim Smith has transformed five-...
Lightly-raced five-year-old Zedi Knight will be looking to make up for lost time this campaign after he was sidelined in the spring after just one run.The winner of five of his eight starts, Zedi K...
Smart Tasmanian filly Tempest Tost earned a trip to Queensland for the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy when she ploughed through the heavy conditions to win at Flemington.The Statue Of Liberty thr...
There's no bitterness on Douglas Whyte's tongue as he takes a sip of sauvignon blanc and looks down at the tower blocks of a city where racing is king and he has been a god for almost two decades....