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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, ...

Looks like Corey Brown is the 'whipping boy' for those new and much-criticised whip rules...He's copped his second suspension for excessive whip use, this time from last Friday's Wyong meeting. The...

Jumps racing really is doomed...The hysteria that's blown up after the death of Siroccan Storm at Warrnambool on Wednesday only highlights what the sport is up against. Today we're likely to see th...

Why so surprised? That's Sydney racing for you...Sydney's leading trainers have been left flabbergasted by the Australian Jockey Club's decision to move next year's Royal Randwick Guineas to Warwic...

Racing could be all over for Australia's #2 sprinter Hay List...The Sydney Morning Herald reports that he's fighting a serious bout of colic and a bad leg infection. Trainer John McNair says: 'We h...

Galleywood Hurdle victor Black And Bent won't run over jumps again until next month's Australian Hurdle but trainer Robert Smerdon has him well placed to continue on his winning way on the flat at ...

Galleywood Hurdle victor Black And Bent won't run over jumps again until next month's Australian Hurdle but trainer Robert Smerdon has him well placed to continue on his winning way on the flat at ...