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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...
Any student of form knows that racing is full of factors that may, or may not, mean something in relation to the outcome of a race. We know, for example, that we can look at the barrier draw for ...
From NEIL FRANKLYNDI'S BOY4g : Trainer - Marty Johnson13 starts : 3 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1200mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyShowy grey gelding with plenty of speed, but I'd li...
WIMMERA@STAWELL Acceptances on Friday 19th November, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.24 CHRIS...
SUNSHINE COAST Acceptances on Saturday 27th June, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: +2m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.15 HOT 91 CLASS 3 PLA...
Trainer Guy Walter will be a happy man if the Frank Packer Plate tradition stands up again.Walter will run this year's Frank Packer Plate runner-up Orca in Saturday's Group Three Doomben Classic (1...
The names of two of the best horses from the Ritchie family past were prominent with a feature race double at Ellerslie on Saturday.City of Auckland Cup winner Showcause, trained by Frank Ritchie, ...
JUST 13 months after having his first runner as an owner, Lawrence Eales is in line for another big pay day if his Street Cry colt Shocking wins tomorrow's group 1 Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm, r...
Dick Turpin is gunning for Frankel after snatching Group One glory in the Premio Vittoria Di Capua in Milan on Saturday.Christophe Soumillon got Richard Hannon's four-year-old up in the final strid...
Rio De La Plata rolled back the years as he claimed Group One success in the Premio Vittorio di Capua at San Siro and completed a memorable double for Godolphin.The five-year-old struck at the high...
Trainer Colin Davies is eyeing a Manikato Stakes start for his stable star Stanzout after the grey won for the first time over 1000 metres at Moonee Valley.The Group One Manikato is run over 1200m ...