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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...
Jockey Michelle Payne could not have wished for a better result than claiming her first Group One winner on a Bart Cummings-trained mare who she is now a chance to ride in next week's Caulfield Cup...
Craig Williams will return to Australia next week hopeful of putting himself straight into the reckoning for a Magic Millions ride.The Australian jockey, who landed a double in Japan at the weekend...
Melbourne Cup second fav Efficient is under an injury 'watch'. Racing Victoria vets examined Efficient on Thursday and later it was admitted the 2007 Cup winner is suffering from 'an old injury' to...
Group One winning jockey Michelle Payne has a minor neck fracture and will miss the remainder of Melbourne's autumn carnival following a race fall on Saturday.Payne's manager Phillip Roost said Pay...
Punters have flocked to Viewed with the 2008 winner assuming outright favouritism to give Bart Cummings a 13th Melbourne Cup.Betting agencies reported strong activity in the 24 hours since the fina...
God Help Her is on trial for a start in next month's $250,000 Inglis Scone Guineas when she runs at Flemington on Saturday.The filly gave Sale trainer Sharyn Trolove her first midweek city winner e...
Trainer Chris Waller is throwing the form guide out the window when it comes to assessing the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick.Many of the leading fancies in Saturday's Randwick feature contes...
Honest galloper Rok Posta gave Cranbourne trainer Nikki Burke her biggest win when he scored a narrow win in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Burke has had her share of ...