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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...
Some time ago a friend confessed to me he’d discovered why he kept on losing every year. “Too many little extra bets…you know, action bets,” he said. “It’s a shock to see how they add up and how ...
How smart is the betting public? There are conflicting views on this question. In recent years, the claim has been advanced that the 'crowd' is smart, that it gets it more right, or close to right...
There are two extremes in "overlays" and "underlays" that you need to be aware of. One is the true low-odds overlay, the other is the high-odds underlay. The way to understand either one (as we...
FORMER top apprentice David Charles will run the Melbourne operation for Darley when John O'Shea assumes control in May. Darley Australia Managing Director Henry Plumptre today announced that Cha...
Sure to brighten up the spring carnival? News reports say Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, may be #1 celebrities at this year's Melbourne Cup meeting. The Age says: 'The Prince of Wales and th...
Champion jockey Douglas Whyte has a difficult barrier draw to navigate, but an abundance of speed in the France Galop Cup (1,000m) tonight at Happy Valley should assist him to get Charles The Great...
BENALLA Acceptances on Friday 22nd October, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01.00 JVS TIMBER MAI...
Tim Clark has scored the ride on Moatize who continues to please master trainer Bart Cummings ahead of Saturday's Group Two Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.Clark marked his return to the big time with su...
Top jockey Chris Munce climbed out of his sick bed and made a triumphant return to Toowoomba where he guided Poor Judge to a track-record win in the $150,000 Weetwood Handicap on Thursday.Munce spe...