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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...

Aussie jockey Zac Purton has made a brilliant start to the new racing season in Hong Kong. He booted home 3 winners at last Sat's opening day meeting at Shatin. The HK Racing Post says: 'Season ope...

Rival trainers have issued their warnings ahead of the Group Two Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm but jockey Shane Scriven has his own words of advice."Don't underestimate old Scenic Blast," Scriven sa...

Our US contributor, the informed and authoritative Barry Meadow, has to be one of the best "down to earth" straight shooters in the racing business. In his articles for PPM over the years, extrac...

In this exclusive interview, Tasmanian-based contributor Steve Wood interviews James Quinn, regarded as one of the great modern-day handicappers in the world. Quinn - America's equivalent of Austr...

I have been involved in horseracing, in one form or another, for many years. In my early twenties, while working as a newspaper reporter based in London, England, I had a friend who was a dyed-i...

I have been involved in horseracing, in one form or another, for many years. In my early twenties, while working as a newspaper reporter based in London, England, I had a friend who was a dyed-i...