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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...

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSERWell, things are certainly getting that way in Horse Land. The Metropolitan was a demo job for Herculian Prince. The price was astounding. $1.40 last week, more than $5 this ...

Paradise is Darwin in July. As you all know I was off last week for a few days visiting my daughter, with my partner Susie, and what a great break it was. After arriving on the red eye special into...

In a recent article in PPM I wrote about finding new inspiration in my punting life since becoming a devotee of Perth racing. Although the same stock of horses run in Perth you do not need to clu...