Arguable 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, ...

I wish I could avoid all races with more than a dozen starters.The recent Doncaster was a case in point. Nineteen of the beasts and probably fourteen arguable chances. The favourite got buried earl...

Of all the racetrack factors none is as important as the fitness of the racehorse you have under scrutiny for a possible wager. The mighty horses of the past have all been beaten by horses sever...

Most punters have, at one time or another, developed a system they hoped would be the mother of all systems, however, what looked so promising generally became so bad it was eventually thrown into...

In 1969, the late Rem Plante published his fine book Australian Horse Racing and Punters' Guide, in which he recommended a simple system of grading each horse's entire career based on the number o...

I discussed with Brian the prospects of taking an overall look at what is available, so far as the best racing literature is concerned. We agreed that although we talk every month about specific...

I discussed with Brian the prospects of taking an overall look at what is available, so far as the best racing literature is concerned. We agreed that although we talk every month about specific...