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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...
Weights have been released for the Melbourne Cup and the following is the latest market from TAB Sportsbet listing the odds on August 5 (at left) and today for the key runners up to 30/1. Current f...
For years and years the catch cry of form students has been weights, weights and nothing but weights however in recent times there has been a movement in the punting world that believe this worth c...
The Racing NSW Handicapping Panel has released weights for the 2010 $600,000 Group 1-Coolmore Classic run at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday (20th March).The weights for all other races will be rele...
Weights for this year's Caulfield Cup have done nothing to change pre-post betting on the rich handicap.Wagering agency TAB Sportsbet said its market was unaffected with the Peter Moody-trained Lig...
Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist and UK galloper Snow Sky head the weights for this year’s $3 million BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) with 58kg. The weights for the world’s richest 2400m hand...
Lloyd Williams' private trainer, Robert Hickmott, dominates the top of the Sydney Cup weights released today with four of the top five horses. Reigning Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon, along wit...
Weights are out but no changes in the market for the Caulfield Cup...That's the word from TAB Sportsbet. It says the main firmers since betting opened on August 5 are as follows:$5,000 @ $11 Lights...
TAB has adjusted the prices of several runners after today's announcement of the Melbourne Cup weights. Trip To Paris and Snow Sky were the biggest firmers, $18-$16 respectively. Snow Sky will...
GAI Waterhouse believes her quest for an historic eighth Epsom has been made difficult by the compressed weights for feature races, which she's labelled "madness", reports the Daily Telegraph in ...
A study of the Newmarket Handicap weights this week will determine whether the Group One feature at Flemington is part of the autumn program for gun sprinter Hay List and heir apparent Rain Affair....