Testify Me Horse

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

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, ...

More great tipping by the PPD Club's 'king of the longshots' Brian Blackwell ...Last Saturday, BB handed out the tip for EVANGELISTA 1st $14.10 at Rosehill, and his only other longshot tip wa...

Trots fans, especially those who bet big on the pacers and trotters, will testify that a good driver is worth a great deal in a tight finish, or in a race where tactics play a key role. Many and ...

Many articles have been written about Pittsburgh Phil, the most famous of all punters. If a certain doctor was alive today he could testify, much to his own chagrin, to Phil's betting astuteness. ...

You should never be fazed by the prospect of studying form. It can be a most rewarding exercise and certainly not one that needs to be a boring bind on your time. All my punting life I have follo...

In this article, our senior contributor E. J. Minnis replies to queries sent in by PPM readers. Please send any questions to: The Editor, PPM, PO Box 551, Dee Why, NSW 2099. Edward McKay sent an ...

Mark Cramer is the author of numerous books such as Kinky Handicapping, Value Handicapping and the racing novel Scared Money as well as the Funky Towns USA and numerous Culture Shock travel guides...