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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...

In recent issues of this magazine I've been discussing the major steps I take to come up with a set of selections that make me a consistent winner and a very happy chappie over a punting year. My...

Last month, I wrote about the life and career of R.W. 'Georgie' Wood, an English schoolteacher who created and published a string of top-selling books, booklets and systems in the 1940s through to...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...