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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...

Jockey Nick Hall thinks sluggish trackworker All Silent will show what he's really made of in Sat's Grp 1 Newmarket at Flemington. Hall says: 'He's a hard horse to get a guide on because he's a laz...

Nick Mordin caused something of a publishing sensation back in 1992 with his book Betting For A Living. It became a bestseller and remains much in demand today, years later. Mordin has sinc...

In the week when the Nick Olive-trained Voice Commander scooped the NSW Country Horse of the Year award, another shining light from his Canberra stable has starred in the Listed Starlight Stakes at...

Nick Hall has got the chop from Newmarket flop All Silent. Which just goes to show...No matter how many big races you win there's always someone who reckons someone else can do better. Hall won Sat...

The debate rages about levelstake betting versus target/progression betting. In the April PPM, contributor 'Anomaly' Nick presented the first part of his case against target/ progression betting i...

The debate rages about levelstake betting versus target/progression betting. In the April PPM, contributor 'Anomaly' Nick presented the first part of his case against target/ progression betting i...