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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...
Leading Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien will make his first visit to Australia in six years, with lightly raced colt Adelaide to start in the Cox Plate. Coolmore racing manager James Bester said O...
Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a real bash at the place side of things and never got a...
Over the years, the stories of many professional punters have been told. Most of these amazing success stories have come from the United States, where bettors in years gone by were more fearless t...
Many readers ask if there is such a thing as a sound staking system for place betting. I usually refrain from trying to answer the question. This is because the readers fail to provide me with th...
Danny O'Brien met the Queen; Aussie Jim McGrath called his last Royal meeting; former VRC committeeman Peter Barnett cheered home the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes winner Opinion; Australian Thoroughbr...
High profile trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have been banned for three years and four years respectively for administering cobalt to horses for performance-enhancing purposes. Both Kava...
AS well as confirming a start in Saturday’s Australian cup, Danny O’Brien said he’s already eyeing a second Cox Plate victory with Shamus Award . O’Brien told TVN’s Racing Review today that wi...
ONE year ago on Saturday, Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien left Caulfield confident that he was a real chance of winning a Caulfield or Melbourne Cup after an impressive first-up run from Vigor, re...