Great Demon 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...

  Jamie Kah recorded her first Melbourne Saturday victory partnering Sistine Demon to his fifth-straight success in the $80,000 Thomas North Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield. Currently on loan to C...

Trots fans, especially those who bet big on the pacers and trotters, will testify that a good driver is worth a great deal in a tight finish, or in a race where tactics play a key role. Many and ...

A couple of former housemates celebrated Group 1 victory together today in Adelaide when Smokin’ Joey won the $500,000 The Goodwood at Morphettville. Emerging trainer Wez Hunter and comeback j...

One of the most discussed aspects of betting in recent years has been the value of making your own betting line. It's something that the writers in PPM have debated many times. US expert Steve Fi...

There's no bitterness on Douglas Whyte's tongue as he takes a sip of sauvignon blanc and looks down at the tower blocks of a city where racing is king and he has been a god for almost two decades....

Moore hails Beadman's HK Derby winning genius Winning trainer John Moore recalled the legendary tactical moves of his father's heyday as Australia's greatest-ever jockey after Darren Beadman brilli...