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Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...
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 ...
Sydney's most popular racehorse Hot Danish brought the carnival to a fitting finale with a stunning victory in the last Group One race of the autumn, the All-Aged Stakes.The jury is still out on th...
THE metropolitan jumping season ended on a high for Ciaron Maher, Steven Pateman, Trent Wells and Fran Houlahan yesterday, but if jumps advocates have their way next year, the season finale might t...
The Darley team has dominated two-year-old racing this year and Ambidexter will be out to provide a fitting finale in Sydney's final juvenile race of the season on Saturday.Ambidexter, a full-broth...
What a great way to end the Hong Kong racing season...Our tipster Sir Conduit gave 2 tips for Wednesday's final Sha Tin meeting and nailed ALGARVE $5.70! The HK season closes out now until early Se...
It has likely come too late but John Size takes an unusually strong team to Happy Valley and the anchor for the team looks four-year-old Eroico in the Perfect Partner Handicap (1,200m) to end th...
Americain's Queen Elizabeth Stakes jockey hasn't been finalised but trainer David Hayes has confirmed Craig Williams is in the running for the prized ride.Hayes said although reports linking Willia...
Athenium has always shown great potential for trainer Sean Woods and the lightly raced five-year-old looks set to claim the final leg of Sunday's HK$4 million Triple Trio - the Dr G Handicap (1,600...
MICHELLE Payne yesterday conceded that her riding career may end in the next few seasons, but the state's leading female rider is determined to make the most of her impending comeback from multiple...
Oakleigh Plate winner Swiss Ace won't return to defend his crown in Melbourne next autumn.Swiss Ace is recovering from knee surgery he underwent in September and will remain in the spelling paddock...