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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...
Perfect for Pierro...The 'ideal' #3 barrier shouldn't present Pierro with any problems in his quest for an eighth straight win in Friday night's Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley. The $220,000 ...
From RACING POST HKwww.racing.scmp.comThe 2009-10 season finished in Perfect Style for the two "Kings of the Valley", trainer Caspar Fownes and jockey Brett Prebble, who claimed the feature race of...
Profound Beauty is not certain to run in the Melbourne Cup...That's the main news from the UK on Tuesday. Even though the Dermot Weld trained mare ran well in the Irish St Leger the speculation is ...
The CSL Million Challenge winds down to its thrilling conclusion in the Kwai Fong Handicap (1,200m) at Happy Valley tonight and the Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Tai Sing Yeh is out of contention, b...
Weather fine, track Prebble - they've been the conditions for racing at the past two meetings, but top apprentice Matthew Chadwick gets a chance to strike at Happy Valley tonight at better odds. P...
A rare Valley double for champion trainer John Size and jockey Douglas Whyte has elevated the rider to a clear premiership lead over Brett Prebble - with Fulfil A Wish and Absolute Hedge both enjoy...
Capitalist has firmed in betting for the 2YO Magic Millions after coming up with barrier two for Saturday's feature. TAB reacted immediately to the Peter Snowden-trained runner drawing ideally by...
It has likely come too late but John Size takes an unusually strong team to Happy Valley and the anchor for the team looks four-year-old Eroico in the Perfect Partner Handicap (1,200m) to end th...
The Mornington Racing Club has increased the distance of its feature race, the Mornington Cup, to 2400 metres.By increasing the distance of the $200,000 feature by 400m, the winner will now pass th...
What separates the night all-weather meetings at Sha Tin from the common garden all-weather races is the track pattern, and that should allow the Sean Woods-trained Free Judgement to land an overdu...