Equal Balance 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...

Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler has been the subject of a massive plunge in Saturday's $2.5 million Caulfield Cup.After losing favouritism for the first leg of Melbourne's major spring treble whe...

Victorian prizemoney will rise to $160 million next season with an $18.7 million funding injection of which 63 per cent will be allocated to country meetings.The across-the-board increases to minim...

It’s always a surprise when you discover that your pet theories have been built on shifting sands. For example, place betting is a safe way to bet; after all, you have three chances of getting a r...

It’s always a surprise when you discover that your pet theories have been built on shifting sands. For example, place betting is a safe way to bet; after all, you have three chances of getting a r...

Since writing the first article in this series, I've had a number of communications-by mail and telephone-from P.P.M. readers, anxious to ask me questions, and one or two to say that my progressio...

Since writing the first article in this series, I've had a number of communications-by mail and telephone-from P.P.M. readers, anxious to ask me questions, and one or two to say that my progressio...