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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...
When we look at statistics in horseracing, we are really looking at what the 'past' has created - a set of figures based on many years' racing, which are so levelled out as to be considered a real...
Many systems have a rule which states, “the horse must have won its last start”. This month we’ll examine this aspect of the winners of 660 races and see whether the rule is sound. We’ll also in...
QUEENSLAND Racing's chief handicapper Lester Grimmett said yesterday he was prepared to use his discretionary powers to keep filly Ortensia's Stradbroke Handicap hopes alive by ensuring she gains a...
Victoria Derby winner Polanski will run in the C.S.Hayes Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, says trainer Robbie Laing. The star colt's race return was delayed last weekend because of a skin infect...
Weighted out of sprint races in South Australia, prolific winner Periduki will have his first start for new trainer Todd Balfour at Flemington after being transferred from Mick Whittle.Adelaide app...
Atomic Force will have his first look at the Moonee Valley circuit in a track gallop on Tuesday morning ahead of Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes.The winner of the Group One Galaxy (1100m) on a...
Peter Moody will launch a two-pronged attack on Saturday’s ATC Sires Produce
Danny O'Brien has Australian Guineas aspirations for Keano who made up for a most unlucky defeat at Caulfield last start with a comfortable win at Flemington.The beautifully bred Pins colt, who cos...
There will be a touch of Spring about Caulfield this Saturday after the $120,000 Polytrack Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) attrac...
TASMANIAN stayer Norsqui surprised even his trainer Walter McShane when he ran strongly to claim an easy victory in yesterday's $300,000 Mornington Cup, which has given him a guaranteed start in th...