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Runs Of Outs

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...

The Kilos Killer: Ratings - The Weight vs Speed Battle

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...

The Don Scott Interview - Part 2

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 ...

The Don Scott Interview (Part 1)

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...

How Bookies Make A Book

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, ...

Try The Triple Trick Attack

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...

Streaks of Pain

How much of a losing run can you expect when you make a series of bets? In this article Garry Robinson talks to a mathematician who has examined all aspects of this vital betting factor. GR: (Gar...

Beadman strikes half-century of 'outs' in Hong Kong

The last month must feel like one of the longest in jockey Darren Beadman's celebrated career - after the champion Australian raised the bat for a half-century of outs yesterday. It has been a frus...

Tendon injury outs Black And Bent for jumps season

Sad news...Australia's top jumper Black And Bent has copped a season ending injury..It's a crushing blow for the Victorian jumping season...Black And Bent has a tendon injury to the same leg that f...

Outfox the Losing Runs

The bane of most punters must be what is generally referred to as 'the long losing run'. Often a run of outs can seem like a road without end. At the races recently, in exasperation, 1 heard one ...

Outfox the Losing Runs

The bane of most punters must be what is generally referred to as 'the long losing run'. Often a run of outs can seem like a road without end. At the races recently, in exasperation, 1 heard one ...

Outfox the Losing Runs

The bane of most punters must be what is generally referred to as 'the long losing run'. Often a run of outs can seem like a road without end. At the races recently, in exasperation, 1 heard one ...