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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...
A decision on whether Combat Kitty has her first test at 1600 metres in the Sandown Guineas will be made after trainer Matt Smith supervises her work on Tuesday.The filly has also been entered for ...
Stoutly bred mare Absolute Joy is ahead of schedule for next month's Port Adelaide Cup after scoring an unexpected win at Sandown.Trained by Lee Freedman, the daughter of Zabeel was third up after ...
Breeder-owner Roger Jennings had two reasons to be delighted after his promising three-year-old filly Galloping Hill won the Shiftmar Handicap at Sandown.Stawell trainer Terry O'Sullivan explained ...
Darren Weir says he will most likely have two runners, Disco Summit and Sublimity, in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas but fears Kidnapped will be a major stumbling block for both of his three-...
RANDWICK Weights on Saturday 16th April, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1- EMIRATES DONCASTER MILE 1600 M Of $2000000 and $11...
Sandown Hillside: Melbourne Racing Club Saturday 12, November 2011 Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)Rail Position: True Position Entire CircuitTrack Condition: Dead 5Race 1 - 12:15PM Written Tycoon...
FLEMINGTON Acceptances on Saturday 12th March, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 3m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-11.30 TBV THOROUGHBRED B...
Flemington: Victoria Racing Club Saturday 09, March 2013Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)OZ Racing VersionRacing Version Print Friendly VersionPrint FriendlyRail Position: True Position Entire Circ...
MOONEE VALLEY Acceptances on Saturday 20th November, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.40 TATTS...