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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...

Epsom Handicap favourite Sincero will only run in the race if the time-honoured event remains at Randwick.The Stradbroke winner's trainer Stephen Farley said the gelding would miss the Epsom and be...

In the fourth part in this series, US professional Barry Meadow and PPM editor Brian Blackwell discuss various aspects of the task of picking and backing winners. The topics range over most handic...

Robert Saunders Dowst is regarded as we of the worlds leading  racing experts. He is legendary for his books about in-depth handicapping and money management his theories  being formulated in the ...

In the fourth part in this series, US professional Barry Meadow and PPM editor Brian Blackwell discuss various aspects of the task of picking and backing winners. The topics range over most handic...

Money management is an element of punting that all too often remains a mystery to bettors. Get a group of punters together and it's more than likely they'll chat about how they go about selectin...

Money management is an element of punting that all too often remains a mystery to bettors. Get a group of punters together and it's more than likely they'll chat about how they go about selectin...