Viva La Juicy 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...

It doesn’t matter how good a punter you are, there will be many times when you will make mistakes. Bad mistakes. Stupid mistakes. The main thing is to learn from them. View the aftermath of your ...

Recently, some of the P.P.M. writers got together for a 'talk-fest' to try to pinpoint some fresh betting ideas. The marble rolled out for me to compile an article based on our discussions, which ...

Recently, some of the P.P.M. writers got together for a 'talk-fest' to try to pinpoint some fresh betting ideas. The marble rolled out for me to compile an article based on our discussions, which ...

Recently, some of the P.P.M. writers got together for a 'talk-fest' to try to pinpoint some fresh betting ideas. The marble rolled out for me to compile an article based on our discussions, which ...

There are two ways you can go in betting. Either way can lead to success or disaster. As with most things in life, much depends on you. If you make the wrong decisions, nothing will save you. So ...

Exclusive Book Extract This is the second part of our exclusive extract from American form analyst and punter Susan Bain’s book Signers, the story of her successful betting exploits with husba...