Mislead 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...

Statistics don't always tell the tale.That's the belief of Toowoomba trainer Tony Gollan ahead of his attempt to win the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday with stablemates Li...

Recently we made mention in PPM of a noted UK expert Che Van der Wheil. Since then we've had many requests for more information on his approach to racing, both in selection and staking. Van der...

Racing, let's admit it, is a cruel mistress. It comes up with all sorts of twists and turns of fate, some of them fortuitous, most the opposite. Racing, linked with betting, can play the cruellest...

There's been a resurgence of interest in recent times in all aspects of "alternative handicapping" with the work of experts like Mark Cramer, Ed Bain and George Kaywood coming in for much closer e...

This is the second article of a series in which US expert Barry Meadow and PPM editor Brian Blackwell discuss the fundamentals of horse-racing handicapping. Meadow's ideas come from his lifelong p...

This is the second article of a series in which US expert Barry Meadow and PPM editor Brian Blackwell discuss the fundamentals of horse-racing handicapping. Meadow's ideas come from his lifelong p...