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Money Management

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...

Grade 'Em Right

The simple things in life are often the ones we tend to ignore. It's the same with betting. Too often, too many of us try too hard to maximise profits and end up losing out because we forgot the s...

Grade 'Em Right

The simple things in life are often the ones we tend to ignore. It's the same with betting. Too often, too many of us try too hard to maximise profits and end up losing out because we forgot the s...

Grade 'Em Right

The simple things in life are often the ones we tend to ignore. It's the same with betting. Too often, too many of us try too hard to maximise profits and end up losing out because we forgot the s...

Money Management at the TAB

Do you have what is known 'in the trade' as a weak betting habit? Do you go crazy once you have set foot on a racetrack? If you do, then take a little heart from the fact that you are one among ...

Money Management at the TAB

Do you have what is known 'in the trade' as a weak betting habit? Do you go crazy once you have set foot on a racetrack? If you do, then take a little heart from the fact that you are one among ...

Roots of Glory (Part 1)

The best way to evaluate any money management method to put it under scrutiny by a risk-benefit analysis. The most effective methods will minimise risk but maximise gain. Sounds good to me, and I...