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The Mebourne Cup Special November / October 2014 issue of Practical Punting Magazine is now available, just click on the green button for instant access.
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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...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finishe...
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 S...
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. Pra...
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 b...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your p...
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....
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. Phi...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote thi...
A Lot for a Little?Or a little for a lot... the ordinary punter always has this challenge in front of him/her.Do you bet, say, $100, and hope confi...
Trainer John Wheeler believes this year's Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm could unveil a future star.Wheeler, who will saddle up Keyora, r...
Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune heads a quality list of 12 nominations in Saturday’s Group 2 Back To Caulfield P.B. Lawrence Stakes (14...
The pretty Doomben course has a straight of 354 metres. It is the smaller of the two tracks in Brisbane, but try to tell that to anyone watching...
Leading jockey Corey Brown expects Saturday's Group Two Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill to be a cracker.Brown will jump aboard star mare More Joyous ...
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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...
A Lot for a Little?Or a little for a lot... the ordinary punter always has this challenge in front of him/her.Do you bet, say, $100, and hope confidently to make $20 on the day, and over the year a...
Trainer John Wheeler believes this year's Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm could unveil a future star.Wheeler, who will saddle up Keyora, rates Saturday's 2400-metre feature as the stronges...
Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune heads a quality list of 12 nominations in Saturday’s Group 2 Back To Caulfield P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. Currently rated the $6.50 favou...
The pretty Doomben course has a straight of 354 metres. It is the smaller of the two tracks in Brisbane, but try to tell that to anyone watching the final furlong or so of the Doomben Ten Thousa...
Leading jockey Corey Brown expects Saturday's Group Two Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill to be a cracker.Brown will jump aboard star mare More Joyous for the first time in the absence of her suspended...
