Look Away Now 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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNROYAL DUDE4g : S McKee : Ardmore12 starts : 2 wins : 6 placesWin distance range : 1000m - 1200mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : SlowThis chap hasn't exactly got me really exc...

Trouble in paradise...Shane Dye is facing an inquiry in Mauritius for his ride in a Cup race last Saturday...The race was won by fellow Australian jockey Dan Nikolic aboard The Cardinal. The probe ...

Trainer Gillian Heinrich will take a "look and see" approach with stablemates Military Grace and Pensive Dream when the pair clash in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Military Grace sta...

Peter Moody's results at the Sydney autumn carnival fell short of his expectations with the Melbourne trainer blaming himself and a mystery virus for the sub par performances of many of his runners...

Peter Moody's results at the Sydney autumn carnival fell short of his expectations with the Melbourne trainer blaming himself and a mystery virus for the sub par performances of many of his runners...

In the last issue (June PPM) I covered the idea of learning to "talk to the horse" when you get to the races. You'll recall I wrote about the attitude of the horse and I pointed to the fact that m...