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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...
Dermot's on the way...Champion Irish trainer Dermot Weld - the grumpy face of Irish racing - has confirmed he will start one of his nominations in the Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington in Novembe...
Dermot Weld's already in narky mood in time for spring...His Cup raider Galileo's Choice has been hit by travel sickness following his marathon journey to Australia Galileo's Choice touched down in...
Dermot Weld’s Pale Mimosa overnight went into quarantine in England for a possible trip to Australia for the Melbourne Cup. A final decision on whether the six-year-old mare makes the trip will ...
THE Victoria Racing Club's dream of making this year's 150th Melbourne Cup a vintage event took a significant turn for the better yesterday when Irish trainer Dermot Weld indicated that his mare Pr...
Dermot Weld is up to his old tricks again, and this time it's the 'will he, won't he' game with his Melbourne Cup contender Profound Beauty. Although the mare has gone into quarantine, Dermot is st...
Dermot Weld’s Pale Mimosa was beaten into third place in France overnight after being taken out of quarantine for Australia. She was being prepared by Weld, who has won the Melbourne Cup with ...
Looks like the irish master-blaster Dermot Weld is VERY keen to win the Melbourne Cup with Profound Beauty...She showed her class with a bold win in the Listed Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown over...
Will wily old Dermot Weld be back with Profound Beauty for this year's Melbourne Cup? Oh yes, could be! The hardy mare took the first step with a first-up win at Leopardstown on Sunday. The UK webs...
Dermot's heading back...Irish trainer Dermot Weld is planning another Melbourne Cup attack with Profound Beauty, who ran 5th last year. She boosted her Cup hopes with a successful seasonal debut in...
A year after being retired with a stud career in mind, Empires Choice is in training to join Bart Cummings' assault on a 13th Melbourne Cup.Cummings intended to stand the 2007 Queensland Derby winn...