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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, ...

Master blaster Bart Cummings (83) is scoffing at suggestions he's about to retire...He says: 'Someone asked me if I'd think about retiring if So You Think wins the Cup today...Now why would I do th...

áMaking Money at The Races (3)Last time I was talking with you about systems and how they can be devised. This session is about the second way I listed: professional selectors.Of course I have my b...

A sparkling track gallop by Impressive Eagle this week convinced trainer Leon Macdonald to give her a chance at Group One glory on Saturday, but then he heard about Northern Meteor.The Gai Waterhou...

Over the years, enough has been written about the fact that betting on favourites is not profitable, even if they do win roughly 30 per cent of races. Sadly, they don’t pay enough to cover your o...

Manage your money and you'll manage to win. Good advice, I can assure you. A professional punter handed it on to me many moons ago. He was extraordinarily insistent that without proper money man...

Manage your money and you'll manage to win. Good advice, I can assure you. A professional punter handed it on to me many moons ago. He was extraordinarily insistent that without proper money man...