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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...
Will we see a real Yankee raider in Melbourne in 2010? US sprinter Cannonball, a bold 2nd in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, is in Hong Kong for the big HK Sprint in December, and connect...
You're right, mate! US jockey Patrick Valenzuela WILL ride the Yankee sprinter Cannonball in Sat's Grp 1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. He's been given the all-clear after a probe into his US disc...
International sprinter Cannonball will be the first American-trained galloper to race in Australia when he contests next month's Group One Lightning Stakes.A winner of four races and placed another...
American sprinter Cannonball will leave the Sandown Quarantine centre this week to take up residence with David Hayes at Flemington.Cannonball is scheduled to become the first United States-trained...
Trainer Pat Carey has confirmed Cannonball will make his stable debut at Caulfield on Saturday but is keeping expectations in check with the former accomplished American sprinter.The six-year-old r...
A good performance by American sprinter Cannonball in Saturday's Lightning Stakes at Flemington could lead to more US-trained thoroughbreds racing in Australia, says the sprinter's handler Declan M...
Early betting on Sat's Lightning at Flemington sees Burdekin Blues and Starspangledbanner sharing favoritism at $4.60.BURDEKIN BLUES $4.60 $1.85 STARSPANGLEDBANNER $4.60 $1.85 NICCONI $5.50 $2.05 I...