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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 ...
Adebisi's mystery failure at Eagle Farm last week hasn't caused any sleepless nights for trainer Desleigh Forster ahead of the sprinter's assignment in the Group One BTC Cup at Doomben.Adebisi sent...
Trainer Desleigh Forster rates the interstate invaders in the Champagne Classic inferior to their northern counterparts and is tipping an all-Queensland finish in Saturday's Group Two feature at Do...
Trainer Desleigh Forster isn't backing down from her claim that Adebisi is Queensland's best three-year-old and expects the colt to prove her right in the Group Three Vo Rogue Plate at Doomben on S...
Desleigh Forster declared Adebisi the best three-year-old in Queensland after the trainer landed her third black-type victory in the Listed Gold Edition Plate at Doomben.Adebisi ($17), ridden by Sc...
Trainer Desleigh Forster concedes her assessment of Starlin has changed on more than one occasion since a debut placing as a two-year-old behind her top sprinter Adebisi.Unlike Adebisi who has deve...
Trainer Desleigh Forster is a good listener but will back her own instincts with Norse Code who returns from a brief Melbourne campaign to run at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Norse Code, who tackles the...
Trainer Desleigh Forster will bid for her first two-state double on Wednesday if predicted rain stays away from Eagle Farm.Forster's talented five-year-old How Brave is due to make his comeback in ...