Time And Again 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...

Last month I left you with the promise of detailing what would happen if I changed the percentage figures when pricing a field. In order to provide this information and have you understand how th...

Last month I left you with the promise of detailing what would happen if I changed the percentage figures when pricing a field. In order to provide this information and have you understand how th...

Red face for Richie Boy at TVN? Seems Brett Prebble is taking serious issue with Richard Callander's claim that he will be qutting Hong Kong racing. A very annoyed Prebble has written to the HK Joc...

Plenty of big runs from the fillies at Caulfield on Saturday over the 1100m of the Quezette (Metonymy and Mosheen in particular!), but for my Thousand Guineas preview, I'd prefer to focus on five o...

Find something new to say about staking," the editor challenged me. Believe me, it's a challenge. So much has been written in PPM about staking and money management that it seems we've already cov...

Find something new to say about staking," the editor challenged me. Believe me, it's a challenge. So much has been written in PPM about staking and money management that it seems we've already cov...