About Right 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, ...

Nigel Blackiston's St Leger (2800m) winner Right Of Refusal will now tackle next month's Grp I South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville and then he'll be aimed at a tough spring campaign wit...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

Look out for Sandown Guineas winner So Swift in the New Year. He's having a spell right now but trainers Bill and Symon Wilde have earmakred a key target for him in 2012 - the South Australian Derb...

Hot Radox baths will be Josh Parr's best friend on Christmas Day as he aims to get himself right for Boxing Day racing at Randwick.Parr has a solid book of rides awaiting him on Sunday but a fall a...