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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...

New Zealand Oaks winner Jungle Rocket will be aimed at the Queensland winter carnival with her owners looking forward to the filly finally racing in Australia.Jungle Rocket is owned by Armidale far...

AUSTRALIAN RACING BOARD chairman Bob Bentley yesterday issued a blistering attack on the country's governments, corporate bookmakers and betting exchanges while warning the $5 billion industry face...

Rejuvenated Boban ended a 27-year drought for Epsom Handicap winners when he added the Emirates Stakes to an imposing CV.  After starting his spring preparation in a benchmark 90 race, Boban has ...

áFinding Winners (1)I once asked an old timer (I was a young timer then) about winner-finding. He'd been in the game for fifty years and we were chatting.Well, he was chatting and I was listening, ...

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...

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...