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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...
IT'S A long way from Dubbo to Dubai but Sniper's Bullet is trying to complete the journey as he targets the group 1 $US5 million Dubai Duty Free next month, reports The Age.It says: Mudgee trainer ...
If there is a chink in the armour of iron horse Theseo, New Zealand stayer Harris Tweed might be the one to expose it in Saturday's $2.25 million The BMW at Rosehill.The Gai Waterhouse-trained Thes...
The open spaces at Marcus Wilson's Hunter Valley property suit Hong Kong import Helene Brilliant who is primed to recapture winning form in the Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford.The young trainer w...
The winning margin wasn't convincing but Group One targets were confirmed for Hoylonny after the richly bred colt started his second campaign in a positive manner at Warwick Farm on Monday.Trainer ...
The Mark Kavanagh-trained Whobegotyou spearheads a massive 138 entries for the $1 million Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on June 12.Whobegotyou could also be joined in the 1400-metre f...