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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...
Dwayne Dunn may have to find a mount outside the Lee Freedman stable to attempt a fifth successive Blue Diamond Stakes win.Freedman has five of the top 13 qualifiers in the Blue Diamond at Caulfiel...
Dean Lawson has delayed a final decision until Wednesday morning on whether promising three-year-old Mr Chard will kick off his spring campaign on a heavy (10) track at Sandown.The Al Samer colt is...
Hawkesbury filly Sheer Style didn't handle the heavy going, but her class lifted her to victory in Sunday's Magic Million Clockwise Classic at Ballarat. Jockey Jason Collett was forced to work ...
Mark Kavanagh-trained colt Sheer Talent heads an impressive list of 14 nominations in Friday night's Grp 2 $220,000 Alister Clark Stakes (2040m). Third in the Australian Guineas (1600m) at his late...
Cranbourne trainer Ray Besanko will make a decision on Tuesday about whether the speedy Jeteven runs in Saturday's Redelva Handicap at Caulfield.The $90,000 sprint is run over 1100m and attracted 2...
The strength of an interstate challenge on an Eagle Farm black type race for fillies and mares on Saturday will depend on the handicapper.Five NSW-trained horses, spearheaded by the Chris Waller-tr...
Mick Price is likely to go with just the one runner, Dubleanny, in Saturday's AR Creswick Stakes at Flemington with his other acceptor Our Baby Bonus expected to run at Moonee Valley on Monday.The ...