Almost An Angel 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, ...

Trainer Andrew Noblet can almost taste his first Group One win after Sistine Angel overcame an outside barrier to land the Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington.Following Sunday's barnstorming Group...

A chance meeting in an Adelaide pub many years ago was the catalyst for a partnership that has netted four Melbourne Cups and a friendship like no other between Bart Cummings and Dato'Tan Chin Nam....

Chris Munce's nightmares turned to fairytales when the comeback jockey steered Something Anything to a last gasp win in the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick.The day began well for Munce when h...

Deposed Stradbroke Handicap favourite Sincero is still a chance to run in the $1 million sprint.Trainer Stephen Farley put the Stradbroke back on Sincero's agenda on Monday, a move confirmed when l...

The above comment used to get my vote as the silliest comment in general use around the racing traps. Does it mean the horse will finish second? Or last? When you think about it, the person utteri...

The above comment used to get my vote as the silliest comment in general use around the racing traps. Does it mean the horse will finish second? Or last? When you think about it, the person utteri...