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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...
Trainer Noel Doyle is still searching for answers behind Celtic Dancer's uncharacteristic last-start failure and is hoping blinkers will spark a form turnaround at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Doyle is a...
The uncertainty surrounding the immediate future of Godolphin's No. 1 Australian rider James McDonald has forced the global racing giant to send England-based James Doyle out as his replaceme...
It may be a year early for Celtic Dancer but the three-year-old will go under the spotlight for the Brisbane winter carnival sprints at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Noel Doyle will consider nominati...
A home track advantage has boosted trainer Noel Doyle's confidence in talented three-year-old Biggles making a successful comeback in the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday.Biggles hasn't r...
Trainer Noel Doyle is hoping jockey Scott Galloway will be "hungry" to end a frustrating run of injuries with his first winner in four months aboard Celtic Dancer in the Sita Australia Handicap at ...
Trainer Noel Doyle could be forced to revise plans with Queensland's leading Magic Millions Guineas hope, Biggles.Doyle was giving serious consideration to sending Biggles into next month's $1 mill...
Gold Coast trainer Noel Doyle is confident talented three-year-old Biggles can continue his successful march towards next month's Magic Millions Guineas in the Listed Gold Edition Plate at Eagle Fa...
GODOLPHIN have rejuventated their riding stocks with the signing of William Buick and James Doyle as their retained stable jockeys, reporets Racing Network. Sheikh Mohammed, ruler of Dubai and fi...
Stradbroke Handicap runner-up Hard To Catch will attempt to end a 19-year hoodoo which has denied Queensland of a victory in the Group Three Cameron Handicap at Newcastle on Tuesday.The last Queens...
Gold Coast three-year-old Biggles burst into Magic Millions Guineas contention after claiming the Listed Gold Edition Plate on protest at Eagle Farm.The Desleigh Forster-trained Easy Running ($5.50...