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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...
MASTER trainer Bart Cummings turned 85 on Wednesday and is still doing what he loves, training ''the occasional winner'', reports The Age/SMH.The report adds: ''That keeps the owners happy and keep...
Ballabriggs carried the story of the most famous family in Grand National history on for another generation at Aintree.Anyone with just a passing interest in racing will know of Ginger McCain, who ...
Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...
THE results of a second ECG following a track gallop at Caulfield this morning (Tuesday) will determine the immediate future of Singapore mare Jolie's Shinju after the results of an initial test fa...
PPM's popular expert Jon Hudson has been studying some new mini-systems, and reveals some of the best In this latest article in his occasional series Mini Magic. Over the years, I guess, I've sig...
Leading trainer John Size has formed a powerful combination with Brett Prebble this season and he has turned to the Australian to put the record straight in the Lusitano Challenge Cup (1,400m) at ...
Exciting two-year-old Denman is on target to remain unbeaten this campaign and confirm a Group One date in next month's Golden Rose in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden has lifted his sights with the Lo...