Another Legend Horse

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...

Racing identity Francesca Cumani  will be the Ambassador for the 2014 Jeep Magic Millions Carnival and Raceday. A statement from MM says: ' Ms Cumani embodies the vision of Magic Millions owners...

  There's no point in devising detailed betting strategies unless you're a winning player. And the only way to discover the truth about your play is to keep records. You can't run a business with...

This series will be devoted to midweek racing, mostly at the provincial and country centres, though city racing will be mentioned because it plays a key role in midweek racing. There are any numb...

More than six months have passed since PPM printed an interview with the legendary US handicapper Mark Cramer. His earlier books are a little hard to find, but his most recent work, Value Handic...

In this two-part article, Paul Bockman, one of Australia's leading jumps racing form analysts, discusses the key form factors he uses to beat the jumps. WHY THE JUMPS? Intelligent people often...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...