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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...
English professional Malcolm Smith runs a small tipping service in the UK and aims to make consistent profits. He achieves this by the use of a set of investment rules. Malcolm recently outlined ...
This article is adapted from the original, published in Smartsig magazine in Britain. Malcolm Smith is a highly-regarded form analyst there. I see racing mostly as an investment medium and in an ...
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Leading apprentice Samantha Clenton faces an adjourned stewards inquiry as stewards were kept busy at Sunday's meetings in New South Wales, Canberra and Victoria. Racing NSW stewards opened and a...
BALLARAT Acceptances on Thursday 25th June, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 15m from 800-400m, Out 10m from 400-W.P; True Position the remainder----------------------------------------------------------...
EAGLE FARM Acceptances on Saturday 24th July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: 2.5 metres Entire Course. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.20 HAMILTON HOTEL...
BETFAIR PARK SANDOWN LAKESIDE Acceptances on Wednesday 21st July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 11m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.0...
Much has been said over the years about favourites and how frequently (or infrequently) they win a race. It's when you begin probing the bare statistics a little deeper that you begin to understan...
SALE Acceptances on Tuesday 27th July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 3m from 1600-1000m, True Position the Remainder--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12...