Bel Air 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, ...

A field of 16 will face the starter in the Group One $500,000 Kingston Town Classic at Perth's Ascot racetrack on Saturday.The weight-for-age contest, run over 1800 metres, will feature a return cl...

Peter Moody is enthusiastic about the prospects of Railway Stakes placegetter Annenkov in the Kingston Town Classic at Ascot despite his wide draw.Moody said the 1800m of Saturday's weight-for-age ...

Niconero has retained a share of favouritism despite drawing wide in the Group One Kingston Town Classic at Ascot.The David Hayes-trained seven-year-old drew barrier 14 in the 16-horse field for th...

Jockey Jim Cassidy may be in the twilight of his career but he's confident of reaching a career milestone with his 100th Group One win aboard Sniper's Bullet in Saturday's Kingston Town Classic at ...

Trainer Tracey Bartley is banking on a text book frontrunning ride from big-race jockey Jim Cassidy to get Sniper's Bullet home in the Group One Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.Sniper's B...

Trainer Fred Kersley is playing down the prospects of West Australian star Marasco in the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.The six-year-old is chasing his second success in the $400,000 1200m...