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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...

We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to ourselves, we keep on repeating history! A pal was moan...

There are many misconceptions about the 'average' professional punter. He is not always what people expect him to be. You'll hear talk of well-dressed men about town, driving Rolls-Royces and smo...

There are many misconceptions about the 'average' professional punter. He is not always what people expect him to be. You'll hear talk of well-dressed men about town, driving Rolls-Royces and smo...

There are many misconceptions about the 'average' professional punter. He is not always what people expect him to be. You'll hear talk of well-dressed men about town, driving Rolls-Royces and smo...

WHOBEGOTYOU'S trainer Mark Kavanagh left Moonee Valley last night certain of two things: his super five-year-old is firmly on track to make amends for last year's defeat as favourite in the Cox Pla...

A subject that invariably crops up in discussions about betting is the issue of betting to your own price lines. It’s a topic that we’ve covered before in PPM, and one which just keeps on popping ...