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 May 1997, and set out four staking plans a punter can actually work. Three words, he said, belong in any punter's notebook: effective money strategy.

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What you'll learn:

  • The Pro Multiple — how counting the true chances in a race sets the shortest price you will take each-way, and how one win bet plus three each-way bets comes to a total outlay of 7 units
  • The Rufe Naylor plan — a half-unit up after a loser, repeat after a placegetter, a half-unit back after a winner, and a full unit back once the stake reaches 3 units each-way
  • The Place Columns plan — five columns of place bets, when you move up a column, when you drop back one, and why Column E always sends you round to Column A
  • The Super Target plan — a target, a divisor and a double brake, with the divisor widening after two successive losers so the stakes cannot run away in a losing run

📘 FREE e-book — "Stake Your Claim": download it free and keep the full method beside you every race day 👉https://pp.practicalpunting.com.au/stake-your-claim/