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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...
Brisbane Cup winner Crossthestart is out of the spring carnival after bowing a tendon. Trainer Bevan Laming says: 'I have no idea how serious it is and whether he'll ever race on. Only time will te...
Corey Brown is determined to focus on Sydney racing in the coming months after regaining the outright lead in the jockeys' premiership with a treble at Rosehill.Brown's three-timer on Saturday bega...
A Singapore trip didn't come to fruition for Ahdashim earlier this year but trainer Gerald Ryan has races in three states in mind for the sprinter this campaign.Ahdashim was nominated for the KrisF...
Racing Victoria reports: French star Trevieres has suffered a fracture to near fore cannon. Out of the Spring Carnival
Group One winner Atomic Force has thrived since returning from Melbourne, so much so that trainer Darren Smith has opted to run him at Rosehill on Saturday.In a move that has raised a few eyebrows,...
Noel Mayfield-Smith can see no reason to suggest three-year-old Famous Seamus won't continue the promising start to his career at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.Famous Seamus is unbeaten in two starts a...
Astute trainer Barbara Joseph has prepared some smart mares during her time and she is hoping she has found another one in the up-and-coming Logan's Choice.Joseph, who has put the polish on the lik...
Noel Mayfield-Smith prepared the first winner at a Hawkesbury stand-alone Saturday meeting and now hopes to land one of the feature races on the provincial club's showpiece day.Mayfield-Smith will ...
The Darley team wasn't able to win the race it sponsors on Saturday but made up for it as Free Wheeling led in a stable quinella in the feature Hawkesbury Guineas.Promising three-year-old Mental th...
Doncaster fallout...Popular galloper Whobegotyou is OUT of the Doncaster and the entire Sydney autumn carnival. Trainer Mark Kavanagh says Whobe has a curbed hock and will be spelled until the spri...