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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...
Book Review There's nothing I like better (well, almost nothing) than to sit down at night with a good book to read. I have a wide taste in books, and racing, and associated betting and money m...
Glamour mare Tuesday Joy will have competition in Dubai later this month from an unexpected source with Australian Cup winner Niconero to make the trip.Trainer David Hayes confirmed Niconero would ...
Emerging star So You Think will join the star studded line-up for the Caulfield Guineas robbing the Spring Champion Stakes in Sydney of its favourite.Trainer Bart Cummings has decided the 1600m ra...
A trip to Australia is on the agenda for New Zealand Oaks winner Midnight Oil but Queensland is likely to win out over Sydney.Trainer Paul Duncan said the Queensland Oaks on June 4 was the more fav...
The Tatts W.S Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 weight-for-age championship thoroughbred. Held annually at Moonee Valley Racing club in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest races of the Spring Rac...
Gold Coast: Gold Coast Turf Club Saturday 14, January 2012 Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)Rail Position: Out 0.5m 1000m-400m; True Remainder of Circuit. Track Condition: Good 3Race 1 - 12:05PM BM...
Her racing silks were different but it was an all too familiar result as More Joyous started her Doncaster Mile campaign on a winning note at Randwick on Saturday.Sporting a dark blue livery emblaz...
Bart Cummings and long-time friend and client Dato'Tan Chin Nam are not only eyeing their fourth Melbourne Cup together, they are planning for next year as well.The two octogenarians will be at Cau...
Trainer John Gosden recorded a memorable double on Saturday as Duncan dead-heated with Jukebox Jury in the Irish St Leger after stablemate Masked Marvel won the English equivalent at Doncaster.The ...