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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...
Latest betting update from TAB on the Geelong Cup to be run on Wednesday:
Betting probe...Danny Nikolic's under stewards' gaze in what The Australian is calling a 'betting probe' into a famous Australian racing family. The Oz says: 'It is believed Betfair integrity offic...
Latest betting on Friday's Scone Cup has Fanjura $6.00 the favorite in a wide open betting market, according to TAB Sportsbet. Pureness is second fav at $7.00. There are three runners at $9.50 on t...
Racing Victoria stewards have opened separate inquiries into the alleged betting activities of three jockeys. Stewards began the probes after a routine audit of wagering agencies' betting accounts....
Staking - the crucial element to punting success How you manage your money is just as important as making your selections. A decent staking plan cn make the difference between profit and loss. Th...
Betting moves on Caulfield on Saturday (from TAB Sportsbet on Friday afternoon):The first price listed is original price posted before scratchings RACE MOVERS1 Little since scr of Voile Rouge2 Retu...
The early betting on Wed's Ramornie at Grafton sees Magic Cassius a clear fav at $2.60 from Howmuchdoyouloveme $3.50. The third liner is Riva de Lago at $7.00, ahead of River Lad $8.00 and then You...
Goldmarket news...Latest betting on Monday's big Goldmarket at the Gold Coast sees Captain Sonador the early fav at $2.90, ahead of Zero Rock $3.90 and Deer Valley $6.50 (TAB Sportsbet prices). C...
A SMALL group of Australian punters who have accounts with the world's largest betting exchange, Betfair, will be the basis of an investigation into jockey Danny Nikolic by Racing Victoria Stewards...
NSW chief stipe Ray Murrihy is no fan of NZ's law that allows jockeys to bet. Betting jockeys, he warns, threaten the financial base of racing because punters will lose confidence. 'He adds: 'Betti...