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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...

A CASH-STRAPPED NSW racing industry no longer has a safety net. For years the thoroughbred regulator in this state, Racing NSW, has waged a bitter battle with corporate bookmakers and betting excha...

Miracles Of Life and Diamond Glow, two fillies right at the pointy end of the TAB's early Blue Diamond Market, head an impressive list of 12 nominations for the $120,000 Listed Patinack Farm Blue D...

William Reid Stakes headline act Hay List wasn't at Moonee Valley on Monday morning but several of his rivals in this Friday night's Group 1 were and embarked on some valuable trackwork at the uniq...

The idea of deriving your income solely from wagering on horses has been predominantly viewed by society as an ethically objectionable career choice. The inexorable link between racing and gambl...

The idea of deriving your income solely from wagering on horses has been predominantly viewed by society as an ethically objectionable career choice. The inexorable link between racing and gambl...

In the last two issues of PPM, my old schoolmate and colleague Roman Kozlovski has drawn from his personal experiences of more than 40 years on the punt, forwarding to readers his five most valuab...