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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, ...

Bart Cummings admits the likely return of the Japanese horses in 2010 will be another challenge to his chances of claiming a 13th Melbourne Cup.The federal government has indicated quarantine proto...

Bart Cummings admits the likely return of the Japanese horses in 2010 will be another challenge to his chances of claiming a 13th Melbourne Cup.The federal government has indicated quarantine proto...

International stayer Oceanographer has been backed from $4.40 into $3.80 to win  tomorrow’s  Geelong Cup. Oceanographer, a $51 chance for the Melbourne Cup, is second elect behind Grey Lion, wh...

Anthony Freedman has really emerged as a training force... His imported stayers, Lucas Cranach and Mawingo, share favoritism for the 2012 Melbourne Cup onTAB Sportsbet's first market, released on T...

Jockey Christian Reith has been given a great opportunity to notch his first Group One success with the booking to ride in-form sprinter Ortensia in New Zealand.Reith has been called upon to partne...

Danny O'Brien met the Queen; Aussie Jim McGrath called his last Royal meeting; former VRC committeeman Peter Barnett cheered home the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes winner Opinion; Australian Thoroughbr...