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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...
Lee Freedman refers to her as a "roughie" but betting agencies are not taking any chances with Estee who is set to give the Hall Of Fame trainer his fifth Group One Rupert Clarke Stakes victory at ...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has a real affinity with the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes and at Caulfield on Saturday will be chasing his seventh win in the Group One feature aboard Master Of Design.Oli...
Unbeaten three-year-old Bel Sprinter will be trying to build up his rating at Flemington ahead of an ambitious spring campaign.Trainer Jason Warren said Saturday's King Island Dairy Hcp (1100m) was...
Craig Williams is banking on history stacking up when he rides The Fuzz in Saturday's Group One Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.Williams is keen on the chances of the David Hayes-trained six-year-old ...
Trainer Mike Moroney is hoping Eskimo Queen can advance her Group One record and give him his second Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes victory at Caulfield on Saturday.Moroney said he had purposefully targe...
Steven King is hoping veteran sprinter Let Go Thommo can kick-start the new season for him with a win in Saturday's Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.King, who had a break from riding wit...
Trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith had his faith in Orange County rewarded when Damien Oliver took out his sixth Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes on the grey at Caulfield.Drawn awkwardly in barrier 14, Orange Co...
Danny Nikolic surprisingly hasn't got a ride in Saturday's Underwood Stakes which he has won four times, but he'll do his best to win the other Group One feature on the Caulfield program, the Ruper...