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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...
Cup fever is kicking in - and it's the 'foreign' imports who look like making the headlines (again!). Latest news concerns imported stayer Winchester. He's a four-time Grp 1 winner in the United St...
Americain retains favoritism for the Melbourne Cup with 2 days to go. The latest market from Tatts.com:DUNADEN 7.00 2.50 AMERICAIN 5.50 2.15 JAKKALBERRY 61.00 16.00 RED CADEAUX 9.50 3.15 WINCHE...
LATEST MELBOURNE CUP MARKET(12.15pm Tuesday, Betstar prices)Americain (FR) 6.00Dunaden (FR) 6.50Mount Athos (GB) 9.00Red Cadeaux (GB) 10.00Maluckyday 11.00Ethiopia 13.00Brigantin (FR) 15.00Galileo'...
A ton of quality...astonishing! That's how racing scribes are describing the 23 nominations for next Wednesday's $300,000 Geelong Cup. Seven international horses trained out of the Werribee Quarant...
Newly crowned TAB favourite Glencadam Gold is officially in the Caulfield Cup (2400m) field following today's third acceptances for Saturday week's $2.5 million feature. The Gai Waterhouse-trained ...
Co-trainer Leon Macdonald says the Cox Plate is off the agenda for his top mare Southern Speed. Her campaign will now focus on the Caulfield Cup which she won last year. SS ran on impressively to f...
Green Moon remains favorite for the Caulfield Cup after the release of 1st acceptances on Tuesday.CAULFIELD CUP MARKETGREEN MOON 15.00 DUNADEN 16.00 SOUTHERN SPEED 18.00 MANIGHAR 18.00 STRAWBERRY B...
Alcopop and Moudre have been granted the final two places in the 2012 edition of the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup(2400m), to be run this Saturday. The veteran pair were locked together with the Mike ...
Sth Aussie mare Southern Speed is lame and is OUT of the Melbourne Cup. Racing Victoria released the news on Saturday morning. Last year's Caulfield Cup winner was a 50/1 shot for Tuesday's big rac...
Latest betting on the Melbourne Cup sees the French pair Americain and Dunaden dominating the market at $6.00 (5/1) followed by the UK duo Red Cadeaux and Mount Athos at $9.00 (8/1). The Betstar ma...