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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...
This year started better than the last one ended for trainer Paul Cave who is hoping his stable star German Chocolate can keep the good times rolling by recapturing his best form at Randwick on Sat...
Yankee doodle dandy? Sanagas, rated the best turf stayer in the US, has been bought by BC3 Thoroughbreds and will be aimed at the 2012 Melbourne Cup. The German-bred 5YO gelding has won seven of hi...
Lee and Anthony Freedman are poised to add another gun import to their stable with German Derby hopeful Shimrano set to make the move to Australia. Owned by Australian interests, Shimrano score...
Melbourne Cup aspirant Fox Hunt has won the German St Leger over 2800m and connections are now seriously considering making the trip to Australia. The Racing Post UK reports: 'Fox Hunt (Mark Johnst...
Campanologist landed his first Group One success when he beat German favourite Wiener Walzer in the Grosser Preis Von Lotto Hamburg.Godolphin's five-year-old, trained by Saeed bin Suroor, was drive...