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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...
The Darren Weir -trained Black Heart Bart remains a strong favourite to win the Group One Goodwood at Morphettvill e on Saturd ay. The gelding opened at $3.50 in the All-In market but has...
Takeover Target has continued his impressive build-up to Saturday's Group One The Goodwood with a gallop on the course proper at Morphettville with Jay Ford back in the saddle.The jockey returns to...
Talented sprinter Devil May Care will attempt to qualify for the Group One Goodwood via Saturday's D C McKay Stakes at Morphettville.Although all the mare's five wins have been at 1000 metres, Bena...
Latest betting news on Sat's Grp 1 1200m Goodwood at M'ville SA: Catapulted was $9 back in early April when betting opened on the Goodwood and since then has been well supported, including $2,500 @...
Peter Moody says four-year-old Captain Coltish has freshened up well for Sunday's Group One The Goodwood at Morphettville, but is unhappy that the race has been retained as a set weights and penalt...
Trainer Leon Macdonald believes Augusta Proud has as good a chance as any other horse in the Goodwood field of beating Takeover Target, but indications are it is a pretty slim one.Bookmakers are on...
TOORAK Toff has taken a significant step towards his comeback race in Sunday week's Group 1 Goodwood in Adelaide, reports the Courier-Mail in Brisbane.It says: Toorak Toff demolished his rivals in ...
Bart Cummings will chase the AJC Derby with Rosehill Guineas runner-up Rock Classic. He's ruled out a tilt at the Doncaster. Stable spokesman James Cummings says: 'We are going to the Derby...We al...