I'm A Saint 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...

Why should you become a member of the PPD Club

Gold Coast filly Saint Minerva is unlikely to back up in next week's Queensland Derby despite completing a quantum leap from restricted grade to claim the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Eagle Far...

Gold Coast filly Saint Minerva is unlikely to back up in next week's Queensland Derby despite completing a quantum leap from restricted grade to claim the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Eagle Far...

Gold Coast filly Saint Minerva is unlikely to back up in next week's Queensland Derby despite completing a quantum leap from restricted grade to claim the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Eagle Far...

Patience is Always a VirtueI had just finished writing a page for the next magazine and a horrifying thought struck me:"By the time some people read this they'll have lost a great deal of money fol...

Peter Snowden wants the Big Wet to stick around in Brisbane...He is keen on securing a wet track for mudlark Purple for Sat's Grp 1 2400m Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm. PS says: 'I'll be devastated...