Off The Charts 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...

Since the par (standard) racetime charts for Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were published in Practical Punting Monthly in September 2004, I’ve had numerous requests in regard to the publication o...

In the last two parts of this series, I’ve taken you through 26 areas which pinpoint ways you can give your betting an extra edge, enabling you to hit top gear. This third and final article in the...

Many of the letters I receive each month from PPM readers ask me for ideas on how best to approach the task of studying form. Most ask me what I do and which formguides I use. Because I am requir...

In this month’s article I present what are believed to be a first when it comes to par (standard) racetime charts: ones for the “new” Randwick track, as well as for the much maligned Kensington (R...

If you're like most punters, you find it terribly hard getting your form facts and figures into some sort of order. It's all very well to study the form and jot down remarks at the side of the ne...

We put Statsman's innovation to the real betting test. The Winner-Finder Chart we introduced in last month's P.P.M. has created enormous interest. Not for a long time has a feature story provoked ...