Call Me Jack 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...

THE jockey room dux answered the call and immediately headed for Hong Kong airport. Racing's first lady had been put in her place in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon and was now in need ...

QUIETLY MAKING IT BIGI was at Rosehill on Saturday and I met a chap whom I'd written about in PPM for the new February issue. He was pleased I'd kept his identity right out, and wanted me to meet a...

Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progression betting. I suppose this is because it offe...

Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progression betting. I suppose this is because it offe...

Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progression betting. I suppose this is because it offe...

Veteran turf scribe Max Presnell has launched a scathing attack on the Australian Turf Club.