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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...
Consistent mare Avienus has improved her Caulfield Cup prospects with a sustained on-pace performance to win the Group Two Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley.Ridden by Craig Williams, the five-year-old...
Improving three-year-old Dusty Star has boosted his Australian Guineas claims with an all-the-way win in the Group Two D'Urban Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Peter Morgan was in awe of the performance...
Toowoomba apprentice Brent Evans's first metropolitan winners at Eagle Farm could not have come at a more opportune time.Evans, who turns 18 next month, has been riding for two years but showed gre...
BLACK And Bent etched his name into jumps racing history yesterday, notching his ninth consecutive jumps victory when he won the $100,000 Galleywood Hurdle (3200 metres) at Warrnambool.The six-year...
Jockey Sally Wynne says unbeaten filly Sensational Report is shaping as a potential stakes winner despite her unfashionable pedigree.The All Chatter three-year-old is not very big but with her bril...
Bill Williams will delay choosing his Hiskens Steeplechase mount until after the Robbie Laing-trained pair Hasta Manana and Sir Pentire school at Mornington on Wednesday.Both are down to trial over...
Good news...Racing Victoria has unveiled increases to prizemoney levels across the state from Aug 1, 2012. Both metropolitan and country racing will be boosted by the prizemoney injection. The high...
Lawrie Fownes has experienced some great days in racing, but the former trainer says he has never seen a greater feat than that his son Caspar achieved on Sunday. The proud father was lost for word...