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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...
Talented four-year-old Bel Sprinter will take on star three-year-old colt Sepoy in the Oakleigh Plate in three weeks following his impressive first-up win at Caulfield.Trainer Jason Warren confirme...
Top Qld sprinter Woorim is working well for a first-up defence of his title in the $400,000 Grp 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Feb 23, according to trainer Robert Heathcote. The 7YO son o...
Ortensia will return to Sydney with the TJ Smith as her main target after her Oakleigh Plate failure. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia has emerged OK from her 11th behind Mrs Onassis. Messara say...
Trainer Peter Moody has been forced to re-arrange plans for his awesome sprint team after Saturday's Oakleigh Plate, where all four of his runners missed a place, reports The Age.It says: His multi...
CAULFIELD Acceptances on Saturday 26th February, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 3m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.30 PREMIER SIGNS PL...
Leading trainer Peter Moody is gang-tackling Saturday's Oakleigh Plate with five runners and says it is hard to split them as they are all going well and in the race for the right reasons."They are...
High class sprinter Lucky Secret is set to farewell handicap racing in the Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Tony Vasil has had the five-year-old in a holding pattern for the past month waiting for the Group ...
TAB Sportsbet punters are keen to bet against 3yo Sepoy and a weight carrying record in Saturday's Grp 1 1100m Oakleigh Plate. Sepoy opened at $2 but quickly drifted to $2.30 following a strong mov...
The phrase 'faster than an Oakleigh Plater' may have been entrenched in the common vernacular for many years, but raw speed wasn't the only trait possessed by the Oakleigh Plate's inaugural winner,...