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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 Australian Turf Club will join with the racing community and racing fans at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday to farewell one of the most popular and successful stables seen in Sydney over many de...
Champion trainer Guy Walter has died after suffering a suspected heart attack. Walter was at home when he became ill on Thursday morning. The trainer saddled up Streama to win last Saturday’s Gr...
STREAMA heads to her spring grand final in next month's Epsom Handicap on the back of another Group 1 success in today’s George Main Stakes at Randwick. Trainer Guy Walter said the George Main a...
Emotional scenes engulfed Goulburn on Monday when Wendy Walter trained her first winner at the track where her late husband Guy trained his last. Wendy Walter and stable jockey Blake Shinn wer...
GUY Walter is looking to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups with Zanbagh , now a runner-up in the VRC and ATC Oaks.
RACING’S fraternity today mourned the death of Guy Walter, remembered as not only a champion trainer, but as one of the true gentlemen of the turf. Tributes flowed from all sections of the indust...
Guy Walter's life will be celebrated, fittingly, on Friday at Warwick Farm, the track where he forged a reputation not only as one of the finest trainers in the country, but as a thorough gentlem...
G UY Walter can’t fault stablemates Streama and Toydini ahead of Saturday’s Epsom Handicap at Randwick, reports Racing Network. Walter said both horses had progressed well from their respective wi...
Wendy Walter has today announced she will cease to operate her training business from July 5. Speaking to her owners on her late husband Guy Walter’s website, Wendy says the loss of Guy as the ke...
Guy Walter has been confirmed as the new trainer for European import Basaltico who will add his presence to the major races in Sydney this autumn.The six-year-old was brought to Australia by Luca C...