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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...
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Black Caviar is among 57 nominations for the Grp 1 July Cup (1200m) at Newmarket UK, which may be the second target of her UK campaign. The champ sprinter goes to England in early June to run in th...
SOUTH Australia's premier trainer Tony McEvoy has endorsed the State Government's proposal that will allow the Adelaide Cup to return to its traditional place in May, reports Adelaide Now.It says: ...
Many of the state’s top trainers have runners nominated for Saturday’s June Stakes (1100m) at Royal Randwick with one notable exception. Premier trainer Chris Waller won’t have a runner in the $1...
Canberra sprinter Unanimously is an early defector from the June Stakes, leaving Squamosa as the only three-year-old in the Listed race at Randwick on Saturday.Unanimously has been entered for race...
The wet weather has dented Gary Portelli's enthusiasm about Something Anything's Stradbroke Handicap prospects but lifted his spirits with Allervite in the June Stakes.The in-form sprinter was one ...
Almost eight years to the day since Paul Perry won over Royal Ascot and met the Queen, the Novacastrian trainer will head to Randwick with a Prince.It was June 17, 2003 when the Perry-trained Chois...