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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...

Finding a way for diminutive mare Influential Miss to increase her value beyond the racetrack won't be trainer Pat Carey's only focus this week.Mornington-based Carey is weighing up a black-type op...

Trainer Pat Carey has confirmed Cannonball will make his stable debut at Caulfield on Saturday but is keeping expectations in check with the former accomplished American sprinter.The six-year-old r...

Shane Scriven will begin the next chapter in his near 30-year riding career when he reunites with veteran stayer Scenic Shot in the Listed Members' Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Scriven doesn'...

In part 3 of his series on analysing form, PPM editor Brian Blackwell assesses the impact of making choices on various aspects of form, and following your “subconscious” mind. Last month I talked...

APACHE CAT'S trainer Greg Eurell was stunned to learn Queensland Racing stewards deemed the grand sprinter lame when beaten narrowly as equal favourite in Saturday's BTC Cup at Doomben,reports the ...

What exactly is class? We hear about it all the time, and not only in racing. Class is what makes things cost more than others, and what makes some people think they are better than others (they h...