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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...
As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...
The Darren Weir-trained Time Matters showed the benefit of being taken to the beach at Warrnambool between runs when he easily won the Barton Stakes at Caulfield.The Gilded Time gelding had won six...
Following an eye catching run in the Barton Stakes at Caulfield, former Kiwi Humidor has had his price slashed with TAB to win the Australian Cup. “Now with the all-conquering Darren Weir stable,...
Honest galloper Rok Posta gave Cranbourne trainer Nikki Burke her biggest win when he scored a narrow win in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Burke has had her share of ...
Nash Rawiller is set to star during the Flemington racing carnival starting on Saturday with Derby Day. TAB.com.au has posted a Cup week Group 1 Jockeys Challenge market to cover the fou...
Punters have settled on 2 up and comers for Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap at Grafton with good support coming for Magic Cassius and Howmuchdoyouloveme, says TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie. He told PP...
New Zealand trained filly Anabandana has been the best supported runner in early trade for Saturday's Kevin Hayes Stakes at Caulfield, according to TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie. He told PPD: 'She b...
Latest news on the WA carnival...Some TAB Sportsbet punters have secured "overs" on the Peter Snowden trained Rarefied for the upcoming Winterbottom Stakes with news that fav and local star Barakey...