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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...
Faced with a big field of runners, what’s your usual reaction? Could be that it’s a groan because you’re going to have to plough through the form of 14 or more runners. How to slash the field and...
Jumbo Prince is the punters’ pick to take out the Grafton Cup tomorrow, reports TAB. The Michael Nolan-trained four-year-old is the best backed runner ($8 into $6), holding 30 percent of t...
The legendary punter Eric Connolly handed out a lot of advice during his time - but none so sensible as that which warned punters to bet cautiously. Connolly always said that if you were using a...
Champion jumps trainer Eric Musgrove once thought the future of jumps racing was bleak, but now he believes it’s brighter than ever. Musgrove, one of the icons of the sport who claimed the Bri...
French jockey Eric Legrix has ended his riding career on a winning note with victory at Singapore's Kranji track on Sunday.Legrix, 44, will return to his homeland to join Pascal Bary as an assistan...
Eric Connolly once said there was a simple system which could win good money for patient punters. He had this to say: "It is not always easy to correctly time the preparation of a horse, and pun...
GEELONG SYNTHETIC Acceptances on Monday 6th September, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.42 CHI...
Eric Connolly was regarded as one of Australia's greatest professional punters. In his lifetime, he won massive fortunes, lost them, won them back and lost them again. In fact, at the time of his ...
If ever racing men sit down to talk about famous punters, there is one name that will always be mentioned - Eric Connolly. He was a racehorse trainer in the good old days' but mainly he won a l...