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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...
Victorian prizemoney will rise to $160 million next season with an $18.7 million funding injection of which 63 per cent will be allocated to country meetings.The across-the-board increases to minim...
The NSW government will intervene and dump the panel charged with selecting the five-person independent board to run racing in the state.The 10-member Appointments Panel began the process of select...
The Racing Appeals & Disciplinary (RAD) Board has disqualified jockey Danny Nikolic for a concurrent term of two years with effect from 4 September 2012.The independent three-man panel of Brian For...
Former David Jones chief executive Mark McInnes is one of three independent directors appointed to the board of a new Sydney racing club.He will be joined by Macquarie Bank director Laurie Macri an...
Racing Victoria (RV) Chief Executive, Bernard Saundry, has sought to clarify statements made in yesterday’s Herald Sun regarding the financial state of the racing industry in Victoria.
Re-elected Racing Victoria chairman Michael Duffy says he is "cautiously optimistic" about working harmoniously with new Victorian racing minister Dennis Napthine.This was despite a call by Napthin...
A CASH-STRAPPED NSW racing industry no longer has a safety net. For years the thoroughbred regulator in this state, Racing NSW, has waged a bitter battle with corporate bookmakers and betting excha...
Decision delayed! That's the outcome of today's big talks at Racing Victoria on the future of jumps racing. RV says more talks are needed with interested parties. It's just another sign that the an...
THE rift between sections of the Racing Victoria Limited board and the powerful Victorian Owners Association widened yesterday when owners chairman, Andrew Lafontaine, delivered one of the fiercest...
Tasmania is moving to bring the three racing codes under the control of a single board which will also control the state's totalisator.Racing Minister Michael Aird will introduce the enabling legis...