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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...
A TAB customer has pulled off one of the best punting stories you are likely to hear heading into the Spring Carnival. Spending just $6, the punter snared 7.5 percent of the BIG6 at Caulfield (...
Big hits and misses from Saturday's racing (TAB Sportsbet):CAULFIELDRace ThreeThere's Only One ($3.80-$2.60) $5,000 at $3.50, $8,000 at $3. UNPLACEDRace FourPronto Pronto ($7,500 each-way at $14) U...
I suspect that the vast majority of people who take an interest in racing in NSW and Victoria, and probably most of the rest of the country, have succumbed to investing a few dollars on the latest...
Most of the bigger bets taken by TAB Sportsbet went astray on Saturday. One customer outlaid $100,000 @ $2.70 on Fawkner in the final event at Rosehill which finished third in a tight finish. There...
The winning spring carnival tsunami continues for the PPD Club's ace tipster Brian Blackwell with his Daily Specials notching success after success. At the weekend, BB struck with REAL LOVE 1s...
Cash in on Bart? Master blaster Bart Cummings has a strong list of runners lined up for Melbourne's big spring "majors" and Betstar's Alan Eskander is giving punters the chance to back their opinio...
The BIG6 broke new ground at Randwick with a record pool and dividend. The exotic bet type, which carried a $716,000 jackpot, was heavily promoted throughout the week and punters didn't miss the ch...