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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...
Hugh Bowman will not lodge a further appeal over the suspension he copped at the Hollindale Stakes meeting at the Gold Coast. It means he will miss the ride on Doomben Cup fav Metal Bender on Satur...
MOONEE Valley Racing Club has received a green light to proceed with its redevelopment of its racecourse, reports Racing Network. The Advisory Committee, appointed by the State Minister for Plann...
Red Cadeaux will not run in the race he was initially sent to Australia to contest, the $1.6 million Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m). But the three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up will still be at Rand...
Jockey Jim Cassidy will have operations on both knees and his right ankle later this month as the grand slam-winning rider steels himself for the final chapter of his long and colourful riding care...
From Racing Post in Hong KongDarren Beadman waited until the 11th hour but ultimately came down on the side of youth in choosing to partner Collection in Sunday's Citi Champions & Chater Cup.Beadma...
Blinkers to winkers - that's the gear change trainer Kelly Schweida is hoping will help talented colt Epic win the Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas at Caloundra on Saturday.Epic wore blinkers last sta...
It's a tight squeeze for the Caulfield Cup! Twenty-three horses were paid up when Caulfield Cup final acceptances closed on Tuesday morning. The Melbourne Racing Club committee will meet to determi...
Our Cup runneth over! There's a traffic jam for spots in the Caulfield Cup which means the Melbourne Racing Club committee could face the onerous task of selecting between five equally ranked horse...
The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) has expanded its exempt race policy by earmarking 10 international Group One events in which the winner will be exempt from the 2010 Cox Plate ballot and guaran...
MOONEE Valley Racing Club officials will gain a greater insight tomorrow if Melbourne and Caulfield Cup winner Dunaden will contest the Sportingbet Cox Plate.