Stupendous Horse

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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNQUEEN OF THE CASTLE3f : Trainer - Stephen Crutchley10 starts : 3 wins : 4 placesWin distance range : 800m - 1200mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : Slow : HeavyConsistent mulit...

PPD Club tipster Brian Blackwell struck again on Thursday

Veteran New Zealand jockey Noel Harris has scotched any rumours of retirement in the wake of his latest Group One victory in Saturday's Telegraph Handicap.Harris, 55 earlier this month, gave Tim an...

Well, here it is: the Turnbull Stakes - the race that will either scuttle the dreams of the Typhoon Tracy camp or buoy the connections with massive hope as they head towards the WS Cox Plate, later...

In last month's P.P.M., I talked about the potential perils of level stakes betting. I pointed out the inherent dangers in such an approach and that how a great deal depended not only on a horse's...

In last month's P.P.M., I talked about the potential perils of level stakes betting. I pointed out the inherent dangers in such an approach and that how a great deal depended not only on a horse's...