Beat The Rap 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, ...

The Peter Moody-trained three-year-old Doubtful Jack has booked himself a shot at next month's $1 million Magic Millions 3YO Trophy with a dominant win at Moonee Valley.Doubtful Jack was a beaten f...

The Peter Moody-trained three-year-old Doubtful Jack has booked himself a shot at next month's $1 million Magic Millions 3YO Trophy with a dominant win at Moonee Valley.Doubtful Jack was a beaten f...

CRACK colt Denman is already being prepared for next month's $1 million Caulfield Guineas, but Paul Snowden, who heads the Melbourne stable of his father Peter Snowden, is confident another star ma...

Russell Cameron is going on a journey with lightly-raced colt Chilled By Choice and is unsure where it will end.The three-year-old son of Redoute's Choice has always impressed the Flemington traine...

Russell Cameron is going on a journey with lightly-raced colt Chilled By Choice and is unsure where it will end.The three-year-old son of Redoute's Choice has always impressed the Flemington traine...

Owner Lloyd Williams will decide later in the week whether exciting three-year-old Linton will run in the Group One Futurity Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield.Williams has also entered the grey in the Gr...