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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...
The name Waterhouse has been synonymous with Australian horseracing since 1898 when a 21-year-old named Charles Waterhouse started his bookmaking career and began a bookmaking dynasty which contin...
Gai Waterhouse celebrated her seventh Sydney trainers' premiership when promising mare Moti's victory gave her a winning double on a dramatic closing day to the season at Warwick Farm on Friday.Wat...
GAI Waterhouse's Randwick stables are down on numbers with as many as 30 boxes empty, causing Sydney's highest-profile trainer to cut staff, reports The Age. It says: The Smith-Waterhouse stable ha...
Early Cox Plate favorite Pierro headlines nominations for the return of night racing at Moonee Valley on Friday. With a Cox Plate assault in mind, the Gai Waterhouse-trained Triple Crown winner get...
Local trainer Bill Prain will be happy to play the role of party pooper at Warwick Farm on Friday as Gai Waterhouse and Peter Snowden do battle for the Sydney trainers' premiership.Waterhouse, with...
Squamosa, rated by Gai Waterhouse as a potential international-class sprinter last week, has been given a clean bill of health in the wake of a heavy last-start defeat.Squamosa was cleared by Tullo...
Racing authorities will ask the NSW government to change the law after a court ruled that bookmakers Tom and Bill Waterhouse do not have to pay a 1.5 per cent fee on turnover.The Waterhouses succes...