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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...
Doncaster fallout...Popular galloper Whobegotyou is OUT of the Doncaster and the entire Sydney autumn carnival. Trainer Mark Kavanagh says Whobe has a curbed hock and will be spelled until the spri...
Queenslander Shoot Out has been ruled out of next year's Sydney autumn carnival.Shoot Out hit the big time when he claimed the Group One AJC Australian Derby and Randwick Guineas in Sydney earlier ...
No surprise...Shoot Out's long and tough spring campaign has taken its toll. The classy 4YO is OUT of next year's Sydney autumn carnival. Trainer John Wallace admits the horse needs a long break fr...
The fate of Sydney's showcase spring carnival meeting on October 1 will be announced on Friday amid concerns over the safety of one of the main grandstands at Randwick.Corrosion in structural steel...
RACING NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy admitted the Sydney spring carnival will be held on sub-standard surfaces with the ''very wet winter'' taking its toll on all metropolitan tracks, reports the S...
Another spring carnival done and dusted. The Sandown Classic card is the final meeting for the spring session and Zipping made it one to remember, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.H...
Trainer Mick Price will look to the autumn carnival with Lankan Rupee, which won his second stakes race during the spring carnival in today’s TMB Printing Kevin Heffernan Stakes at Caulfield. ...
Sydney's flagship spring carnival has been thrown into disarray and one of the main grandstands at Randwick closed because it poses a safety risk.Australian Turf Club officials have already been fo...
Forgotten sprinter Smart Missile won't be seen in action until the Brisbane winter carnival.Cummings says time will beat Smart Missile making a belated autumn carnival appearance but he is optimist...
Multiple Group 1 winning mare Streama will have a short Spring campaign in Sydney before being spelled. Trainer Guy Walter told Racing Network that because Streama had an autumn campaign and had ...