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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...
Best known as a sprinter, Group winner Monton will be out to prove he has another string to his bow in Saturday's Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.Monton's four career wins have been in the 1000-...
Jay Ford will renew his association with Monton at Rosehill on Saturday as trainer Ron Quinton searches for an edge to return the sprinter to the winner's stall.Ford has ridden Monton twice in his ...
Refreshed from a Christmas holiday in Ireland, leading jockey Hugh Bowman is hoping to start the new year is style with a Group One victory on Saturday.Bowman heads to New Zealand on Friday morning...
Trainer Tim Martin was almost speechless after three-year-old Monton caused a major upset in the Group Two Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill in which race favourite Manhattan Rain again disappointed.M...
Ready for the Kiwi attack...The Tim Martin-trained Monton is in NZ being readied for his Grp 1 assignment in the prestigious Railway Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year's Day. The 4YO gelding w...
Villiers Stakes winner Monton will spearhead trainer Ron Quinton's autumn team with a tilt at the Group One Doncaster Mile his goal.Quinton said the five-year-old had pulled up well despite endurin...
Monton appears set to miss out on a Doomben 10,000 start but trainer Tim Martin has not given up hope of getting the three-year-old into next month's Stradbroke Handicap.The Hobartville Stakes winn...