Battle Point 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...

In a past PPM article I spoke about the importance of formulating a pricing methodology to determine which selections represent value to the invested dollar. Horse-race betting requires a solid ...

In a past PPM article I spoke about the importance of formulating a pricing methodology to determine which selections represent value to the invested dollar. Horse-race betting requires a solid ...

In a past PPM article I spoke about the importance of formulating a pricing methodology to determine which selections represent value to the invested dollar. Horse-race betting requires a solid ...

The argument over each way betting never goes away, does it? A reader from Perth raised the matter with me in a letter just recently. He said that he'd read in PPM that each way betting was bad b...

It’s back to the trifecta this month, and this time I’m looking at some of the more costly multiple combinations. I’m using $75 as the minimum stake. This is a fair whack to spend on a trifecta b...

Several readers have been in touch following my articles on multiple betting on trifectas and First 4s. All raised interesting points. In future issues of PPM, I will deal with the issues they br...