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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...

Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile continues to please trainer Anthony Cummings ahead of Saturday's AJC Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.Although there is a $3 million difference in prizemone...

How good is So You Think? It's the big talking-point question in the wake of his barnstorming spring form. Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell is holding back fulsome praise. He says in his SMH col...

Expensive yearling purchase Hades continues to please Joe Pride ahead of her debut at Randwick on Friday with the trainer excited by what he describes as the best "second-hand" horse he's welcomed ...

In this article, our senior contributor E.J. Minnis continues his series of "questions and answers" in which he replies to queries sent in by PPM readers. We intend making this series a regular fe...

In the past two issues I have written about my findings relevant to horseracing websites in, firstly, Western Australia ( perthturftalk.com ,  kozform.com, puntperth.com and westozracing.com )  i...

Win-strike rates are fun, believe it or not. How many times have you seen a statement something like this one? "The horse must have a winstrike rate of 25 per cent, a minimum of five starts and m...