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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...

Are they going to dump her? This is the question hanging over Miracles of Life jockey Lauren Stojakovic as the countdown continues to the Blue Diamond. Latest news is that trainer Daniel Clarken sa...

Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...

Connections of Hay List are keen to take the powerhouse sprinter to Dubai for the rich Golden Shaheen if he wins Saturday's Lightning Stakes at Flemington.The huge gelding, who weighs 610kg, arrive...

In this article, Philip Roy reveals the thoughts and advice of several of the world's most eminent psychologists as they talk about how to have a winning approach to betting. If you're seeking the...

In some respects this is the most difficult article I have written for PPM and in another respect it will be the most important because the reflection I have to make is fairly stark and quite humb...