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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...
Punters who are serious about their betting on harness racing can often be the racing world's most fanatic types. Like train spotters, or even golfers, they become obsessed. I admit that years bac...
Victoria's Appeals and Disciplinary Board has disqualified Rosehill trainer Con Karakatsanis and his father Tony for lengthy periods after finding the pair guilty of offences relating to an attempt...
Craig Williams has been handed the chance to shine in Japan...He's accepted an offer from leading Japanese trainer Noriyuki Hori on a contract emabling him to ride there in three month-long stints ...
CON and Tony Karakatsanis were today found guilty by the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board of a collective five charges levelled against them by Racing Victoria stewards.The RAD Board, chaired by...
Experienced horseman Danny Williams has taken up a position with Tony McEvoy at Hawkesbury. Williams, who has 34 years experience in the industry as both a jockey and trainer, will run McEvoy's S...
Out you go...Stewards have hit apprentice Jason Maskiell with a careless riding suspension from Sat's Sandown Hillside meeting. They say Maskiell allowed At The Heads to shift in when insufficientl...
A STIRRING track gallop at Morphettville on Saturday by one-time Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Jimando has convinced trainer Tony McEvoy that the colt can defeat the favourite Samaready in Saturday...
Trainer Tony Millard and champion jockey Zac Purton have not partnered up for over 12 months, but they could be back as an item after aspiring star Divine Calling makes his long-awaited debut...
Good to see top Adelaide trainer Tony McEvoy
Not so happy...Trainer Tony McEvoy said news that Sea Moon has been scratched from the Melbourne Cup left him feeling "sick" McEvoy's horse Big Memory, second in Saturday's Lexus Stakes behind ...