Mountain Range 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...

Is it worth the time and trouble of studying greyhound racing form? Can the average punter simply follow tipsters or box numbers and make money? PPM's expert George 'Barker' Bellfield gives his vi...

Is it worth the time and trouble of studying greyhound racing form? Can the average punter simply follow tipsters or box numbers and make money? PPM's expert George 'Barker' Bellfield gives his vi...

  A quality list of nominations have been received for Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting, with a host of black type gallopers set to feature.

In the November PPM, I chronicled my journey into the Victorian State Library to obtain a copy of the very first formguide I kept for research purposes and expressed surprise at how little informa...

This is a WARNING. You are about to read an article that is not for the faint-hearted. In fact, its brutality is comparable to that depicted in Braveheart! Read on at your own peril. Over the ye...

When a bookmaker writes to tell you that he's been "severely wounded" by a betting plunge that you have orchestrated, it means that something extra special has been achieved. And this is what ha...