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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...
In just over 40 years on the punt I have read many articles about the flamboyant punters of the past. Felipe Ysmael and Eddie Birchley, aka The Fireman, are two that come to mind immediately in ...
Eight winning tickets including one belonging to a punter who staked just STG2 have won a share of Britain's Scoop6 pool, each taking home STG437,011.39 ($A1.06 million).The win fund reached a mass...
TRAINER Peter Moody expects his unbeaten colt Master Harry to be hard to beat when he resumes in today's Vain Stakes at Caulfield but he warned the colt was no certainty to chase a Caulfield Guinea...
Leading trainer Peter Moody says lightly-raced three-year-old Master Harry is extremely unlikely to take his place in Saturday's Kensington Stakes at Flemington.The chestnut Magic Albert colt was o...
Trainer Peter Moody says Master Harry has a job ahead of him to match the more experienced three-year-olds when he resumes in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.Master Harry captured the imaginati...
The story of the day at Warrnambool was apprentice jockey Harry Coffey who notched up his first treble of wins at a TAB meeting.The popular young rider, who has Cystic Fibrosis, achieved the feat i...