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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...
Mick Price says he couldn't be happier with Testa My Patience who is shooting for his fifth straight win at Flemington on Saturday.The Testa Rossa four-year-old made it four in a row when he defeat...
Latest betting for the Blue Diamond Stakes (Grp 1, 2YOs) 1200m at Caulfield has the Peter Snowden trained colt Secession the clear fav at $5.50 (9/2). Secession has had one run for a win at Sandown...
Latest betting news from TAB Sportsbet on Thursday evening::Blue DiamondSecession has eased over the past week but remains favourite at $7.00...Crystal Lily has firmed from $26 to $8.50 after winni...
Back in the limelight? Rick Hore-Lacy, who's been in the shadows since the Redoute's Choice glory days of the late 1990s, seems to have landed a potential topliner with Toorak Toff, impressive winn...
Robbie Laing is better known for his feats with jumpers but will again demonstrate his versatility with two-year-old She's Got Gears in the Blue Diamond Preview for fillies at Caulfield.The daughte...
Sizzling has firmed from $2.50 into $1.80 to win next Sat's Grp 1 1600m TJ Smith Plate at Eagle Farm after a slick win in the muddy going in the Grp 2 Sires' Produce Stakes. The Snitzel colt opened...