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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...
Brad Wallace provided his father, Gold Coast trainer John Wallace, with one of the proudest moments of his long career when the apprentice landed a winner at his first metropolitan ride at Doomben ...
Apprentice Brooke Richardson will have the handicapper to thank if she can break through for her first metropolitan win aboard Playtime at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Trainer Todd Austin considered enga...
In an age when kids are grabbing 'fame' whenever they can, it's nice to see apprentice Jackie Beriman deciding to take her time about launching into major city racing. She and trainer Jarrod McLean...
Out you go...Dwayne Dunn has been suspended for 10 meetings for careless riding on Forever The Chill in the first race at Sandown Hillside on Wednesday. The suspension begins at midnight on Saturda...
Secret Flyer broke a run of 15 outs since his last win 21 months ago and helped apprentice Ashley Thompson to his first city double at Caulfield on Saturday.The topweight in the ALH Group Plate (10...
Apprentice Tom Sadler will long remember the cold Wednesday at Sandown in May when he landed his first metropolitan win aboard Lordoftheparrots.Sadler managed to keep the Mike Moroney-trained Lordo...
Nice to see that someone still cares enough to cry...Newcastle apprentice Alex Stokes wept years of joy after notching her first city winner at Canterbury on Wednesday. Alex won on Dolliparton in t...
Apprentice Tom Sadler will have his first metropolitan ride at Caulfield on Wednesday aboard the Allan Williams-trained Dane The Rave.Sadler, who turns 17 on December 27, has ridden 15 winners on t...
Sydney's leading apprentice Josh Adams, now indentured to Gerald Ryan at Rosehill, will be out to notch his first winner for his new boss at Canterbury on Wednesday.Adams joined Ryan's stable last ...