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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...
The Darley operation is looking for a big weekend's results...Star of the pack is, of course, Golden Slipper winner Sepoy who resumes at Caulfield - and then there's Glissade and Parables. Glissade...
The Black Caviar show may have taken much of the attention away from the AJC Australian Derby on Saturday but the champion mare's trainer is one with much at stake in the prestigious Classic.Peter ...
COMEBACK kid Katelyn Mallyon has already smashed through one of racing's glass ceilings and says she can break through another, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun.It says: Mallyon, who makes her come...
He's the son of a champion trainer and the grandson of a legendary jockey.And for the past few weeks he has been working hard at adding his family's name to one of the few major honour rolls in Aus...
Three-time Melbourne Cup winning jockey Glen Boss is to team up with two-time winning trainer Dermot Weld and the mare Profound Beauty in a bid to add another trophy to both their tallies.The Weld ...
Exciting five-year-old Flat Chat will crown his meteoric rise through the grades with a crack at the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield.Trained by John Sadler, Flat Chat has won his past four star...
EMERGING apprentices Jordan Childs and Regan Bayliss added to their impressive season’s at Bendigo on Wednesday. Childs partnered Royal Island to win BM 78 and post his 30th winner, one...
We don't have to ask the question 'how good is Shoot Out' because we already know the answer...He is brilliant! What a win by the Gold Coast star in the Bletchingly at Caulfield on Saturday. Great ...
Good news...Black Caviar will be given the chance to add to her unprecedented race record in 2013. The champion mare's trainer Peter Moody has confirmed that, in consultation with the owners, it's ...
Australia's reigning champion sprinter Apache Cat is "climbing the walls" to get out and stretch his Group One winning streak in Saturday's Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington.The popular baldy-fac...