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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...
Danerich colt Crystal Reef will miss the chance to emulate his Golden Slipper Stakes-winning half-sister and stablemate Crystal Lily this autumn.Trained by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra, Crystal ...
Robbie Laing has Group 1 aspirations for Lord Of The Sky , dominant winner of Saturday’s Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. Laing nominated the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400 m) at Caulfield on A...
Enigmatic Victorian sprinter Lord Of The Sky got within the closest possible margin of pulling off the upset of Day 1 of The Championships in Sydney. The Robbie Laing -trained speed machine wa...
The Melbourne Racing Club has received over a double century of nominations for the Taralye Race Day at Caulfield this Saturday. On the back of a devastating trial performance at Cranbourne thi...
Autumn plans for unbeaten Didntcostalot will become clearer after the colt makes his third and final appearance of his first campaign at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.The $3000 yearling purchase, who b...
Trainer Robbie Laing believes he has two of the leading chances for the Blue Diamond Stakes in stakes winner Spectrolite and Saturday's impressive Sandown winner Grand Britannia.Laing has raced onl...