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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...
From NEIL FRANKLYNFASHION ROCKS4m : L Noble : Matamata11 starts : 2 wins : 5 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Fast/GoodUseful sprinter-miler who's likely to move on...
Game frontrunner Mr Clangtastic is set for the Grp 1 Metropolitan after notching his fourth successive win in Friday's $120,000 Wyong Cup...Trainer Marc Conners says Mr Clangtastic will have his ne...
Metropolitan winner The Verminator has been given a 2kgs Caulfield and Melbourne Cup penalty. It's the same penalty issued to the past two Metrop winners Speed Gifted and Herculian Prince and take...
Herculian Prince's win at Rosehill has sent punters and bookies into a tizzy. The Gai Waterhouse trained stayer is now in to $4.20 for the the AJC Metrop 2400m on Oct 2. But will he run in that rac...
Glyn Schofield is brimming with confidence over his rides in the Epsom and Metrop at Randwick on Saturday. The Sth African is on Road To Rock in the Epsom and Ready To Lift in the Metrop. He says: ...
AJC Metropolitan news....Bookmakers have Speed Gifted the $4.20 fav for the Grp 1 2400m Metrop, ahead of Gerald Ryan's in-form mare Ready To Lift ($5.50). Trainer Lee Freedman is said to have soun...
Julienas won the traditional lead-up to the Metropolitan, but it was the run of I'm Imposing in defeat which has shaped TAB’s Metropolitan market. The pair ran one-two in Saturday's Colin Steph...
Big prediction...Jockey Larry Cassidy reckons Ipswich Cup winner Our Lukas can make waves in Sydney. LC says: 'He can stay, and he has made a big step from last preparation to this preparation...A ...
KIWI stayer Castle Heights prevailed in a three-way finish to win yesterday's $150,000 Grafton Cup, reports John Schell in the Sydney Morning Herald.He says: Ridden by resurgent jockey Stathi Katsi...
Rising star! Glencadam Gold ($6.50) is the new Metropolitan favorite following his decisive win in the 2300m Newcastle Gold Cup on Thursday. The imported stayer had plenty of supporters in today's ...