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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...

It appears that divine intervention might be our best hope of isolating the winner of tomorrow's Australian Guineas; the mile Group 1 for three-year-olds surely one of the more open feature races w...

No sooner has the dust settled on Kyneton Cup day than I find myself puffing and panting for the formguides for the VRC Oaks and dutifully do the required form work that night. Is there a picture...

The first rule for betting survival never, in my view, changes.  And it is very simple: Bet within your means. The moment you lose sight of this one, you can bet your sweet life that you will str...

The English writer Alan Potts, whose brilliant work has been mentioned in PPM the past year or so, makes dazzling statement about betting on single selections. It is on page 235 of The Inside Tr...

The English writer Alan Potts, whose brilliant work has been mentioned in PPM the past year or so, makes dazzling statement about betting on single selections. It is on page 235 of The Inside Tr...

The most amazing thing about many systems and staking plans is probably that they are usually so very simple. A plan that rocked the nation nearly two years ago was The Dark Horse, yet its heart...