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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...
So, racing is prosperinmg in Victoria? Well, maybe and maybe not. Latest reports say that despite one of Australia's iconic sprint races being renamed the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes, the Victori...
Bit of a war going on between Racing Victoria and the VRC over those planned prizemoney cuts...The SMH reports: 'Racing Victoria is urging the VRC to reconsider a proposal to cut prizemoney for sel...
Good news...Racing Victoria has unveiled increases to prizemoney levels across the state from Aug 1, 2012. Both metropolitan and country racing will be boosted by the prizemoney injection. The high...
With little light on the horizon with regard to prizemoney increases in Queensland, the Queensland Racehorse Owners' Association (QROA) has questioned the wisdom of the State Governments focus on i...
Scone sizzles....On May 13 and 14, Scone will offer some $1.9milion in prizemoney, by far the biggest amount ever available for a non-metropolitan carnival and a big lift on the previous record set...
A $10 MILLION hole in the prizemoney budget for 2009-10 has to be filled by the end of the financial year, the new Racing NSW board says, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: As revealed in t...
The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) has announced a $2.5 million prizemoney increase for the 2009-10 season to almost $21 million, and made some key changes to its racing program.The prizemoney bo...
Wonder who's going to cop the blame for the VRC's expected cuts in prizemoney in the coming months. Apparently up to 30 feature races will be hit. The Melb Herald Sun says the VRC has advised Racin...
WHERE are all the two-year-olds in Sydney racing this season? Despite record prizemoney, average field sizes for the juvenile races are the lowest in years, reports Ray Thomas in the Daily Telegrap...
THE prizemoney crisis within racing is set to come to a head this week with the five provincial clubs facing a multimillion-dollar hole in their revenues for the next financial year, reports the Sy...