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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...
Exclusive Book Extract Susan Bain is one of America’s leading female punters. She and her husband Ed Bain ( www.edbain.com ) devised the highly successful 4x30 formula, using trainer stats to s...
Exclusive Book Extract This is the second part of our exclusive extract from American form analyst and punter Susan Bain’s book Signers, the story of her successful betting exploits with husba...
You are probably aware that I’ve consistently advocated having AT LEAST 60 per cent of one’s investment in the straight pools. Exactas, trifectas and other exotics have a way of punishing good han...
Debutantes Lentini and Trounce will be on trial for trips to Queensland when they oppose each other at Canterbury.The two are among 13 two-year-olds to contest a division of an 1100m event on Tuesd...
In the United States, they say no-one writes with more authority and verve on horse-racing than Andy Beyer. We've had a look ourselves at some of Beyer's thoughts on and advice about racing and be...
There's been a resurgence of interest in recent times in all aspects of "alternative handicapping" with the work of experts like Mark Cramer, Ed Bain and George Kaywood coming in for much closer e...
BALLARAT Acceptances on Thursday 17th February, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: +7m from 1000m - 400m, +5m 400m - WP--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01.00 UN...
Tasmanian-trained Tiger Won't Tell is set to make a raid on a series of three-year-old staying races culminating in next month's VRC St Leger Stakes at Flemington.Trainer Tommy Young crossed Bass S...
Mark Cramer is one of America's most respected writers on horse-racing handicapping. He's a rebel when it comes to handicapping, and likes to fly in the face of accepted theories. His books Kinky ...
Much is published in daily newspapers about the manner in which horses perform during trackwork. But how much does it actually help you to back a winner? For a start, does the average punter pay ...