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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...
Fighting words from under-siege Damien Oliver after his brilliant winning ride on Commanding Jewel in the Grp 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield. Ollie told the crowd: "I'd like to thank Leon Corstens...
Here's a tip from Kiwi Land...Look out for Vigor's brother Joey Massino. NZ Thorougnbred News says: 'The competitive nature of the 3YO O'Reilly coltwas plain for all to see in Sat's Grp 2 Avondale ...
First Epsom shock...Peter Moody's NZ-owned mare King's Rose has been scratched from Sat's Grp 1 Epsom (1600m) at Randwick after showing signs of tieing-up at Caulfield on Thursday morning. Moody de...
Talented Queensland filly Femina Fashion is nearing her comeback ahead of an ambitious spring campaign aimed at the Group One Epsom Handicap at Randwick in October.Trainer Trevor Whittington has be...
Corey Brown will kick himself if Sacred Choice breaks an Epsom hoodoo on Saturday but the top jockey is comfortable with his decision to partner Foreteller.Brown has ridden Doncaster winner Sacred ...
A deliberate decision to play a low-key role with Kiwi galloper Firebolt during the winter in Queensland could reap rewards in Sydney this spring.Trainer Roger James plans to send Firebolt across t...
A decision not to roll the dice during the Brisbane winter carnival could pay off in the spring for connections of Rothera who makes his comeback at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Ben Currie has penci...