To The Point 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...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained  Bull Point  has taken over as favoruite for the Group 1 $500,000 Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield tomorrow. Since opening fixed-odds markets went up on the race ...

Gai Waterhouse stamped her authority on TAB’s Australian Guineas market by producing impressive galloper Bull Point fresh from a spell to down a hot field in the John Moule Manfred Stakes at Caul...

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...

The whip rules controversy is moving swiftly to crisis point...A number of well-known jockeys are pressing for industrial action. The jockeys want the poorly-framed new rules to be thrown out. They...

The late Philip Alexander was regarded as one of Britain's leading systems and staking experts. PPM has acquired the rights to the many articles he wrote in his lifetime and they will form the bas...

THE prizemoney crisis within racing is set to come to a head this week with the five provincial clubs facing a multimillion-dollar hole in their revenues for the next financial year, reports the Sy...