Make Even 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...

THIS IS EVEN HARDER!Winning is hard.Damned hard.But making it more difficult for yourself is very easy.Just bet midweek.That'll do it, I promise.At present I'm looking at Warrnambool's biggest day....

Black Caviar hysteria has certainly taken hold...Even the hard-boiled racing press scribblers cannot hold themselves back...Ray Thomas of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph gushes: 'Black Caviar has joine...

AN EASIER WAY TO MAKE MONEY?You know, with your access to the net there are easier ways to make a buck than to shove it all into the biggest (and therefore often most difficult) races.Let's have a ...

THINGS GET HOTTERThe next few weekends are Sydney's flagship performances: it's make or break time.You know the line-up: BMW, Golden Slipper, Sydney Cup, Doncaster, Oaks, Derby... etc etc...If they...

It's a tough game...Moudre and Valdemoro, both well-fancied for the Caulfield Cup, are striking problems to make the field, and even to gain starts in the vital lead-up race, the Turnbull Stakes. R...

Remember, I am just like most readers of PPM. I am not a 'pro' and never want to be. I'm a hobby punter and I have a very good time enjoying my racing and regularly showing a profit. As I wrote la...