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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...
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...
Peter Moody has ruled out a tilt at the $2 million Doncaster with exciting filly Typhoon Tracy but jockey Glen Boss says he will be doing his best to convince the trainer to change his mind after h...
Les Bridge says Hot Danish will run in Saturday's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill after receiving the all clear from the mare's owners.The five-year-old's place in the $600,000 1500-metre fe...
Dual Group One winner Eskimo Queen is back in work at Mike Moroney's Melbourne stable and will be aimed at successive victories in the Coolmore Classic."She'll be aimed for the Coolmore again," Mor...
Stuart Webb, who played a behind-the-scenes role in Mosheen's Randwick Guineas win, is hoping for a larger share of the Sydney autumn spotlight with Yosei on Saturday.Webb has confirmed a start in ...
Trainer Rob Heathcote plans to raise the bar to next month's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill with talented mare Tomboy if she passes two crucial assignments beginning with Doomben on Saturda...
Star Queensland filly Paprika continues to blossom in Melbourne ahead of her assignment in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Trainer Liam Birchley is so impressed with Pa...
Trainer Kris Lees says a good barrier will ensure Absolutelyfabulous will not be giving Hot Danish another massive head start when they clash in Saturday's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill.Ab...
Tommy Berry is hoping to end his apprenticeship on the best possible note with Group One success at Rosehill on Saturday.Berry has been granted permission from Racing NSW to come out of his time a ...