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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, ...

Sydney's premier apprentice Peter Wells made the perfect start to Group One racing with his winning ride on outsider Newport in the Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick.An emotional Wells dedicated th...

Trainer Guy Walter has ruled Streama out of the Group One Doncaster Mile after the filly failed to figure in Saturday's Coolmore Classic.Walter was testing the three-year-old's Doncaster prospects ...

A considerable weight drop should help offset the rise in class for lightly-raced mare Royal Rock who is chasing an overdue win in the Mona Lisa Stakes at Wyong.The four-year-old goes into Sunday's...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...