Let's Dance 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...

AN EASY WAY TO LOSELast Saturday evening One Last Dance looked a genuine threat to the favourite for the Blue Diamond.The TABs kept her safe at $7 behind the short Sepoy (far too short for this rac...

In this article, PPM editor Brian Blackwell reviews a new book by the colourful English professional punter Dave Nevison, called A Bloody Good Winner and examines what Nevison has to say about bei...

There are man patterns in racing. Horses tend to race in a certain 'pattern' and often you discern coming winners by looking for changes in the way a horse runs from race to race. Some years ago,...

There are man patterns in racing. Horses tend to race in a certain 'pattern' and often you discern coming winners by looking for changes in the way a horse runs from race to race. Some years ago,...

Last month I ran out of space and I still had one “basic betting rule” to cover. This was my liking for Group races and especially for Group 1 races. It stands to reason that anybody who is seriou...

Most Thursday nights, after a long day in the trenches in my day job and after about three hours of form work for the Perth races, I have the need to find something less pressure packed to do. ...