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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...
Talented jockey Jamie Mott is hoping to cap off his successful comeback to the saddle with a feature race win at Caulfield on Boxing Day.Mott has four rides on Sunday including the Danny O'Brien-tr...
Jamie Mott's starry run has come to a temporary halt...Racing Victoria stewards have hit him with an 11-meeting suspension for careless riding on Keep Cool at Seymour on Thursday. JM pleaded guilty...
Heavyweight jockey Jamie Mott has retained the mount on exciting three-year-old Under The Eiffel after trainer Tony Vasil agonised about whether he would engage a claiming apprentice for the geldin...
Were you, like me, wondering why Jamie Mott let Vada Rosso loose with a 50 lens lead at Warrnambool on Tuesday? It was suicidal stuff and it was no surprise when Vada Rosso stopped as if shot in th...
Has Tony Vasil got himself another superstar? Well, maybe. More likely just a very good horse in Under The Eiffel, who resumed from an injury-enforced spell to notch animpressive win at Sandown La...
Gifted sprinter Zedi Knight has rebounded from a spring form slump to pass $500,000 in career earnings with his victory in the Listed Christmas Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Brendan McCarthy said the...
The Mornington Racing Club has increased the distance of its feature race, the Mornington Cup, to 2400 metres.By increasing the distance of the $200,000 feature by 400m, the winner will now pass th...
A couple of former housemates celebrated Group 1 victory together today in Adelaide when Smokin’ Joey won the $500,000 The Goodwood at Morphettville. Emerging trainer Wez Hunter and comeback j...
Seven-year-old De Arias is looking to capitalise on his career-best form in the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington on Saturday.Trained by Jamie Edwards and Bruce Elkington, De Arias is untried at ...
Jamie Edwards has a long range Spring Carnival plan with progressive galloper Sertorius . “The owners are very keen to run him in the Caulfield Cup so I’m very mindful of not asking him to do too...