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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...

With a fitness edge due to a four-day back-up and dropping down to a nice draw, Potential can catch his Class Five rivals on the hop in the opening leg of a massive Happy Valley Triple Trio tomorro...

The Pearce Memorial Challenge Cup pits leading jockeys Douglas Whyte and Zac Purton head to head today at Sha Tin and Whyte looks to have the edge on Seasons Star. The Tony Cruz-trained Seasons Sta...

Second Effort ($5.50) has been the centre of a good move in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday, firming from $11. Punters are banking on a wet track giving Second Effort the edge; ...

With winter upon us, and wet tracks prevalent in many areas of Australia, PPM's Martin Dowling takes a look at the problems and pitfalls of punting when the going is rain-affected. Most top prof...

Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...

Gold Coast trainer Howard Wilson believes there's little between his two chances Spot On Target and Fifteen Carat in Saturday's Group Three Gold Coast Guineas.Wilson, who has trained on the Coast f...