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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...
This is the second part of a major article by American expert David E. Schwartz. Last issue he outlined various key strategies and in this article he sums up his approach. You can visit his websit...
When it comes to horseracing, most of us have been searching for a Holy Grail of sorts. That special system or approach that will lift us to the level we wish to attain. Some of us have found w...
We hear a lot about various forms of multiple betting, and invariably when this is discussed the topic of ‘Dutching’ comes up. It was devised by a man named Dutchy Schwarz back in 1902. He was, ...
Wonder what Dad would have said? Latest news is that David Hayes is selling the family's famous Lindsay Park complex. He's planning a full-time move to Victoria. David's legendary father Colin esta...
As expected, David Hayes will take over the training of 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain in 2012. Americain's owners Gerry Ryan and Kevin Bamford chose Hayes to succeed French master Alain De Ro...
Chad Schofield and David Hayes will combine at Moonee Valley on Friday night with Gregers in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes. While their partnership may no longer be as strong as it once was, ...
David Hayes described as “very good” Monday's gallop at his Euroa training complex from Criterion , who leaves for Hong Kong on Tuesday week (December 2). Criterion , a recent addition to the H...
Former European Changingoftheguard, bought by trainer David Hayes as a Melbourne Cup prospect, was lame at Sandown yesterday morning, putting his Melbourne Cup bid in doubt. Changingoftheguard has ...