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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...
Multiple Group 1 winner Boban has returned to Chris Waller's Sydney stable and will be given the opportunity to defend his Epsom Handicap crown, reports Racing Network. Waller's decision to tar...
This year's Dubai Australian Cup quinella of Manighar and Southern Speed are set to resume their hostilities at Flemington this Saturday with the pair among 19 entries for the $305,000 Group 2 Maky...
Market moves have taken off in TAB’s Futures markets following Saturday's racing. In Epsom betting, Chautauqua has stormed into favoritism off the back of a superb win at Flemington (Bobbie ...
Following Tuesday’s announcement of first acceptances, Racing Victoria’s (RV) Executive General Manager – Racing, Greg Carpenter, has today released the initial Order of Entry for the $3 million ...
Clarry Conners has revealed that reigning Crown Oaks champion Dear Demi will race exclusively in Melbourne this Spring Racing Carnival with the rising four-year-old’s main targets the BMW Caulfi...
John Sargent doesn’t think Kirramosa is quite in the same league as So You Think, but that hasn’t stopped him drawing similarities between the pair. The Randwick trainer is hoping last year’s Cr...
Group One winners Forensics and Sousa head the list of stars returning to Crown Lodge this week to prepare for the autumn carnival.Trainer Peter Snowden is expecting a large contingent to arrive at...
Melbourne Cup weights are out and a Japanese stayer heads the entries. Racing Victoria (RV) Executive General Manager (Racing) Greg Carpenter, released the weightswhich have Admire Rakti the top...
More than $25 million will be spent on revitalising Warwick Farm Racecourse, the AJC has announced. It says major new member, spectator, racing and training facilities will be built under a Grand P...