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Wet Tracks

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 Kilos Killer: Ratings - The Weight vs Speed Battle

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...

The Don Scott Interview - Part 2

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 ...

The Don Scott Interview (Part 1)

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...

How Bookies Make A Book

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, ...

Try The Triple Trick Attack

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...

Danger! Wet Tracks

With winter upon us, and wet tracks prevalent in many areas of Australia, PPM's Martin Dowling takes a look at the problems and pitfalls of punting when the going is rain-affected. Most top prof...

Payne optimistic despite wet tracks

David Payne has mixed feelings but high hopes about his stable's runners on wet tracks in Sydney and Brisbane this week.Big Red Cat heads to Canterbury on Wednesday having won on a heavy track at W...

Payne optimistic despite wet tracks

Murrihy admits fears over Sydney tracks in the spring

RACING NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy admitted the Sydney spring carnival will be held on sub-standard surfaces with the ''very wet winter'' taking its toll on all metropolitan tracks, reports the S...

Walter juggling to avoid wet tracks

Mr Incredible is likely to be Guy Walter's only runner at Randwick with the trainer juggling the programs of Raheights, Royal Rock and Kylie to avoid wet tracks.Raheights and Royal Rock are almost ...