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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...
Ask any serious punter about the virtues of place betting and you will realise it would have been a good idea to bring a chair with you. And a packed lunch as well, with a thermos of coffee. This...
A question that pops up repeatedly is whether it’s better to bet for a win, a place or each way. I decided some years ago that place betting was not profitable. At least, not when I used my own ...
There are many punters vehemently opposed to place betting. There are others who can't get enough of it. The latter group, I suspect, is made up of those punters who like to get regular returns on...
Early betting action on Saturday's big races (from TAB Sportsbet)RANDWICKT.J. SMITH STAKESMaster Of Design $71 - $51 ($500 @ $71, $500 @ $61,$1500 @ $15 & $500 @ $13 place only) SIRES PRODUCE All T...
Early betting moves for Randwick on Saturday (from TAB Sportsbet):RACE MOVER 1 Howdiddydoit $7.50-$5 ($2,000 e/w @ $7.50, $2,000 @ $6)2 Nil3 Rarefied $6-$4.80 ($2,000 @ $6), Delago Bolt $17-$13 ($1...
The success, or failure, of Sydney's big bookie breakthrough could determine the ultimate future of our bagmen. If the idea doesn't work, you can start the countdown for the exodus of bookies from...
Do race favourites and place betting go together? The answer is YES and NO and MAYBE. On the “yes” side there’s the prospect of a 60 to 70 per cent strike rate, on the “no” side there’s the prosp...
My Bentley is fav at $4.40 in a wide-open betting battle in Wed's Bendigo Cup, according to the latest market from TAB Sportsbet.MY BENTLEY 4.40 MUIR 6.50 DREAM PEDLAR 6.50 VALDEMORO 8.00 ZAUBERIN ...