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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...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finishe...
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 S...
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. Pra...
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 b...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your p...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down....
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Phi...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote thi...
The crunch time came for our David Hayes betting test in the wake of last year's spring carnival. The stable experienced an extremely poor run and...
The argument over each way betting never goes away, does it? A reader from Perth raised the matter with me in a letter just recently. He said tha...
For a long time now, I have concerned myself with longterm betting strategies. It's been something of a personal battle for me. Some of you may r...
Progression betting. Ugh, I can bear some of you say. Please, not progression betting. It doesn't work! And neither does target betting, and so on...
Clever indeed is the punter who shies away from risk-taking. But, alas, silly indeed are the majority of punters who do take risks, not only in th...
In the final part of his absorbing series, PPM expert Statsman tells you more about how to be a professional punter, using $5,000 as a bank. I've...
In the many years I've been associated with PPM, I guess I've received some 200 letters from readers asking me about the benefits, or otherwise, o...
Let me deal, firstly, with one of the simplest possible examples of using both tipsters and the pre-post betting market. This is a relatively simp...
Those punters who believe that level stakes betting is dull, conservative and a copout are probably interested in any other form of staking. Anyth...
Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progr...
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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...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...
The crunch time came for our David Hayes betting test in the wake of last year's spring carnival. The stable experienced an extremely poor run and placed the 6-Point Divisor Test under great strai...
The argument over each way betting never goes away, does it? A reader from Perth raised the matter with me in a letter just recently. He said that he'd read in PPM that each way betting was bad b...
For a long time now, I have concerned myself with longterm betting strategies. It's been something of a personal battle for me. Some of you may remember the series I wrote some years ago on 'powe...
Progression betting. Ugh, I can bear some of you say. Please, not progression betting. It doesn't work! And neither does target betting, and so on. To which I reply: Why not? Anyone who has prope...
Clever indeed is the punter who shies away from risk-taking. But, alas, silly indeed are the majority of punters who do take risks, not only in their selection of horses to back, but in the way th...
In the final part of his absorbing series, PPM expert Statsman tells you more about how to be a professional punter, using $5,000 as a bank. I've talked in my two previous articles about staking ...
In the many years I've been associated with PPM, I guess I've received some 200 letters from readers asking me about the benefits, or otherwise, of various forms of staking. It doesn't surprise ...
Let me deal, firstly, with one of the simplest possible examples of using both tipsters and the pre-post betting market. This is a relatively simple technique and it will probably allow you to mov...
Those punters who believe that level stakes betting is dull, conservative and a copout are probably interested in any other form of staking. Anything which can bring with it a touch of excitement,...
Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progression betting. I suppose this is because it offe...