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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...
Tony McCoy managed a fitting end to his landmark year by taking both Grade One races at Newbury, including one named in his honour aboard the magnificent Big Buck's.McCoy had remarked how much he e...
Flamboyant jockey Frankie Dettori says he has no plans to retire, with plenty more big race wins in store.The number one jockey for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation, Dettori will be back in Au...
Clerk of the course Simon Claisse is confident this week's two-day fixture at Cheltenham will beat the cold snap after officials began covering the entire track.National Hunt racing has been hit ha...
Tony McCoy was underwhelmed about Binocular despite the reigning Champion Hurdler finishing off his Cheltenham preparations on a winning note at Sandown.It was worth remembering McCoy had been fair...
Fourteen-time champion jockey Tony McCoy won the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday for the first time in 15 attempts on Don't Push It.The 10-1 joint favourite - also giving trainer Jonjo O'Neil...
Resolute stayer Synchronised helped Tony McCoy complete a grand slam of National victories in the Welsh version at Chepstow.The event, carried over from Christmas, will not earn the champion jockey...
Champion jumps jockey Tony McCoy says he hopes to be back riding in days rather than weeks although he concedes his chances of riding a record 300 winners this season has gone.McCoy suffered fractu...
Kauto Star became the first horse to regain the Cheltenham Gold Cup after winning this year's edition of one of British racing's most prestigious races over fences on Friday.Sent off as the 7-4 fav...