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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...
Tim Martin will find out in Saturday's Group Three Missile Stakes if taking Typhoon Zed to Grafton recently was a good move.The trainer will launch a two-pronged attack on the 1100-metre Rosehill f...
Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...
Maher, 27, builds formidable big-race winning record WARRNAMBOOL trainer Ciaron Maher is building a remarkable record for winning feature races at his first attempt and so goes into tomorrow's Gran...
A decision to run bold frontrunning fencer Al Garhood in Thursday's Grand Annual Steeplechase is on hold despite him joining an elite band of jumpers by winning his second Brierly Steeplechase at W...
From NEIL FRANKLYNRURAL REBEL3g : S McKee : Ardmore8 starts : 2 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : Fast-Good : DeadThis fellow has been in work a fair while but he's...
Tasmanian trainer Michael Trinder further enhanced his impressive record with jumpers when Morsonique put on a great front running display to win the Grand National Steeplechase at Sandown.The 10-y...