A Sensible Prince Horse

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

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, ...

Two pieces of advice were given to me once by a British backer who had made quite a successful career out of betting on horse-racing. For a start, he said, concentrate on doubles, and find yourse...

Two pieces of advice were given to me once by a British backer who had made quite a successful career out of betting on horse-racing. For a start, he said, concentrate on doubles, and find yourse...

Two pieces of advice were given to me once by a British backer who had made quite a successful career out of betting on horse-racing. For a start, he said, concentrate on doubles, and find yourse...

Two pieces of advice were given to me once by a British backer who had made quite a successful career out of betting on horse-racing. For a start, he said, concentrate on doubles, and find yourse...

The Pensioner Plan experiment is moving along with 207 selections for Plan A - the Wildcat selections resulting in a miserable 37 winners (17.87%). On a flat stake win only basis the returns have b...

Oct 3Pensioner Plan SelectionsPlan 1: Wildcat Selections (never to be backed: baseline selections only)RANDWICK 4-10-1-13-2-2-5-5-5-3FLEMINGTON 2-2-9-5-2-1-11-10-5BELMONT PARK 1-4-1-9-3-1-5-1DOOMBE...