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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...
Chris Waller paid tribute to Nash Rawiller's "freakish ride" to get Our Cannavaro home at Randwick on Wednesday, just a day after the trainer gave the leading rider a "rev-up" at the Rosehill barri...
In the wake of his stunning all the way win in the 2200m Grand Prix at Doomben, the Peter Moody trained Brambles is the new fav to win the Qld Derby 2400m (Grp 1). Opening up on raceday morning at ...
A daring front-running ride aboard Brambles from Melbourne jockey Brad Rawiller gave trainer Peter Moody successive wins in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben.Brambles ($4.80) led from ba...
In this article, our senior contributor E. J. Minnis replies to queries sent in by PPM readers. Please send any questions to: The Editor, PPM, PO Box 551, Dee Why, NSW 2099. Edward McKay sent an ...
Australian jockey Craig Williams has claimed a Group One win in Japan, taking out the NHK Mile in Tokyo aboard Grand Prix Boss.Williams has just begun a three-month contract in Japan but will be ho...