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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...

In the second article in this series, PPM editor Brian Blackwell continues his analysis of recent results, and this month looks at a couple of big-race winners. Taking a ‘leap of faith’ is often ...

West Australian sprinter Scenic Blast, who underwent a throat operation last spring, is bound for Royal Ascot after carrying one of the highest weights in the last 50 years to victory in the Newmar...

West Australian sprinter Scenic Blast, who underwent a throat operation last spring, is bound for Royal Ascot after carrying one of the highest weights in the last 50 years to victory in the Newmar...

When Bootlegging won at 66/1 at Randwick in late August, subscribers to the PPD Club were screaming for joy. The BIG winner had been handed out as a fantastic overlay selection by the Club's i...

Lee Freedman is relying on three-year-old Common Interest to give him his fifth Kensington Stakes (1000m) victory at Flemington.One of the favourites for Saturday's Listed sprint, the More Than Rea...

Lee Freedman is relying on three-year-old Common Interest to give him his fifth Kensington Stakes (1000m) victory at Flemington.One of the favourites for Saturday's Listed sprint, the More Than Rea...