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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, ...

TRAINER Pat Hyland confirmed plans for a tilt at the $750,000 group 1 Australian Guineas (1600 metres) at Flemington on Saturday week for progressive colt Shanghai Warrior after he scored a tough w...

Green Moon has retained the second line of betting after drawing gate #5 for Sat's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. The Macedon Lodge import's jockey Craig Williams, who won last year's Cox Plate aboard...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver says he will be able to ride at Moonee Valley on Friday night despite injuring his left knee in a barrier mishap.Oliver was unable to take his last two rides at Sandow...

Talented staying mare Unchain My Heart has given trainer David Hayes his second Bagot Handicap win with a rail hugging ride by Dwayne Dunn.The five-year-old mare who has been in work since June, ha...

Michael Rodd gets the chance to claw one back from Corey Brown when he rides dominant favourite Faint Perfume in the VRC Oaks.As the number one rider for the Mark Kavanagh stable, Rodd's expectatio...

Michael Rodd gets the chance to claw one back from Corey Brown when he rides dominant favourite Faint Perfume in the VRC Oaks.As the number one rider for the Mark Kavanagh stable, Rodd's expectatio...