Amazing Duck 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...

Can you tell a genuinely fast run from one that just looks fast? In this one, Gordon unpacks "par times" — the smoothed average time for each track, distance and going — so you can read the clock t...

Sth Aussie mare Southern Speed will run in the Cox Plate instead of the Caulfield Cup - and Damien Oliver is being touted as the jockey. Co- trainer Leon Macdonald confirms that Southern Speed, win...

What is speed handicapping? How can you quickly determine the best prospects in a race by applying speed-rating theories? Well, to begin with, it is 'something of a challenge for the ordinary punt...

Readers of PPM will be familiar with the name Andrew Beyer, the American author of several books on speed ratings. I've been a speed rating fan for many years now and I developed my own ratings sy...

The fitness and tactical speed of Gold-Fun look the key attributes that can make him only the second Classic Mile winner to take the second of the four-year-old Group Ones, the Classic Cup at Sha T...

Imported galloper Speed Gifted has rocketed into $9 second favouritism for the Caulfield Cup with jockey Dwayne Dunn comparing him favourably to 2006 winner Tawqeet.The lightly raced six-year-old m...