Emanating 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 Melbourne Cup has been rated the best staying race in the world for the past two years, so the trends established by the great race in that time are the benchmark for distance racing. In short,...

Here is an extract from my latest article on some of Australia's most astute smaller training operations. Read the full article in the upcoming edition of PPM... The devastating win of Qfighter, a ...

There's a lot of nonsense flying around after that controversial court win for Racing NSW. Much of it is coming from the victors. Some is coming from Victoria where the usually sensible trainer Pet...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

A decision on whether jockey Danny Nikolic has the right to withhold his mobile phone from stewards has been reserved.Nikolic appeared before the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) on Frid...