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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...
An expected heat wave has prompted Racing Victoria and the Melbourne Racing Club to amend times for Saturday's C.F Orr Stakes meeting with the first race at 11am. Temperatures are set to soar bey...
Novelty markets the go...TAB Sportsbet has framed a number of special markets surrounding the appearance of Black Caviar in the C F Orr Stakes on Saturday.First up is a market on the winning margin...
Group One winner Littorio is progressing well towards his comeback in the C F Orr Stakes in early February.The gelding's career was interrupted by bone soreness, a condition trainer Nigel Blackisto...
The Gai Waterhouse-trained Bull Point has taken over as favoruite for the Group 1 $500,000 Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield tomorrow. Since opening fixed-odds markets went up on the race ...
A total of 163 nominations have been weighted for the 151st running of the $3 million The Star Doncaster Mile (Group 1, 1600m) to be staged on Day 1 of The Championships at Royal Randwick on S...
The Racing NSW Handicapping Panel has released weights for the 2010 $600,000 Group 1-Coolmore Classic run at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday (20th March).The weights for all other races will be rele...
Leading Victorian trainer Peter Moody will have a Sydney presence from January 1 next year after being granted 10 boxes at Rosehill.The conditioner of champion Black Caviar, Moody is based at Caulf...
European import Rebel Soldier will have his first start for his new owners and trainer David Hayes when he resumes in the C F Orr Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday week.Hayes has set the lightly race...