Measure Of God 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...

The hottest topic of conversation in racing in the past 24 hours centres around star three year-old Helmet and his quest to win the Cox Plate with Racenet's Craig Tompson offering up some interesti...

Coffs Harbour trainer Trevor Hardy is looking forward to a profitable campaign with his quality sprinter Symposium but the veteran horseman is equally content to play the waiting game.Hardy pulled ...

December Draw doesn't have to win Sunday's Group One Turnbull Stakes at Flemington to please his trainer Mark Kavanagh as the import has his final lead-up to the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup.Since be...

Michelle Payne became the fourth member of her family to either ride or train the winner of the Bendigo Cup when she guided the Mick Kent-trained Banana Man to victory in the Listed feature.She emu...

It's easy these days to convince yourself that by looking at video replays and turn-and-finish photoform you can, suddenly, transform yourself into a winning punter. Oh that it were that easy! To...

Readers of PPM will be familiar with the name Andrew Beyer, the American author of several books on speed ratings. I've been a speed rating fan for many years now and I developed my own ratings sy...