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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...
From NEIL FRANKLYNBOSS BENTON5g : Trainer - F Auret8 starts : 2 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 1200mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyThere had to be some doubt as to whether or not this l...
from NEIL FRANKLYNHIGHLIGHT4m : Trainer - Frank Ritchie5 starts : 3 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead : HeavyThis mare may have been a shade lucky to de...
Fromk NEIL FRANKLYNESTRATO3c : Trainer - Peter McKay8 starts : 3 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 800m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : GoodThis young galloper is putting together a decent recor...
From NEIL FRANKLYNCOOL CRUISING3f Trainer : John Sargent 8 starts : 2 wins Win distance range : 1350 - 1400mTrack conditions won on : HeavyOne Cool Cat sprinter who's taken a little while to strike...
From NEIL FRANKLYNDEFENCITI4g : Trainer : Peter Fleming10 starts : 2 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : HeavyThis bloke grows another leg in the mud and it would pay...
From NEIL FRANKLYNLADY BELLE4m : Trainer : Mel Cooper11 starts : 2 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 2000m - 2300mTrack conditions won on : Good : SlowI like the way this staying mare has develop...
From NEIL FRANKLYNFAST LOVE4m : Trainer : Murray Baker10 starts : 3 wins : 4 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 2200mTrack conditions won on : Good : SlowPromising middle-distance performer who pro...
From NEIL FRANKLYNARTISTIC3f : Trainer - Shaune Ritchie4 starts : 2 wins Win distance range : 1200m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Dead : SlowIt looks like this young filly is going places fast j...
Neil Franklyn's NZ horses to followTRAVELLER4yo bay geldingTrainer: Ken & Bev KelsoRaceday record: 5 starts - 1 win, 2 secondsWin distance range: 1600mTrack conditions won on: SlowThis bloke was se...
Neil Franklyn's NZ horses to followSPLITSECOND3f : Trainer : Roger James4 starts : 1 win : 1 placeWin distance range : 1600mTrack conditions won on : GoodDespite being inexperienced with just a han...