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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...
Had a break recently? Great. Hope you enjoyed it. Did you still do the form, have some bets, and so on? What’s that you said? “Is the Pope a Catholic?” Well, think about this for a moment. Why do...
LEGENDARY race caller Wayne Wilson died today. He was 66. Wilson had been the voice of Queensland racing for more than three decades. He died, after a long battle with cancer, on the eve of...
The amazing Neville 'Nifty' Wilson has finally called 'time up' on his riding career. It's something he's been dreading for years. Injured 18 months ago in a fall at Geelong, Wilson, 65, was hoping...
Veteran jockey Neville Wilson is hoping to avoid a second operation after taking his first steps since an horrific race fall at Geelong.Wilson has already had neck surgery after fracturing his C3 a...
Veteran trainer Howard Wilson believes he can provide a winner for "long shot" punters in Saturday's $1 million Magic Millions Trophy at the Gold Coast.Wilson, who began training on the coastal str...
Gold Coast trainer Howard Wilson's stocks for next month's $1 million Magic Millions Trophy will soar if talented colt Spot On Target makes a successful comeback at Eagle Farm.Wilson emerged with a...
SUNSHINE COAST Acceptances on Saturday 27th June, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: +2m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.15 HOT 91 CLASS 3 PLA...
Doncaster Mile plans for Fifteen Carat have been abandoned in favour of a Stradbroke Handicap mission at Eagle Farm during the Brisbane winter carnival.Trainer Howard Wilson rates the four-year-old...
The signature voice of Queensland racing will be heard for the final time when Wayne Wilson retires after half a century of race calling at the end of the Eagle Farm meeting on Saturday.Wilson, 61,...