Hard Work 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...

There is no royal road to profits in horse racing — you have to do at least some work. Ratings are that work: measuring what a racehorse can actually do and writing it down as a number you can comp...

The PPD Club's ImpactPro ratings, operating on a handful of selected races each day, were in tremendous form again on Tuesday (Sep 24) with SEVEN winners from 10 assessed races across three meet...

Find the right race on which to bet! This is the first major factor I'm going to focus on in this series of articles. I do this because I've always been convinced that 'bet choice' is the cornerst...

The power of the PPD Club's ImpactPro ratings

In previous articles I mentioned that we would later concentrate on refinements and pricing. However, in doing so I'm conscious of not making the task too difficult for users of the Killer Fact...

In previous articles I mentioned that we would later concentrate on refinements and pricing. However, in doing so I'm conscious of not making the task too difficult for users of the Killer Factor...