Black Country 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, ...

Does Black Caviar deserve to be ranked alongside Australia's greatest racehorse Phar Lap?It's an impossible question to compare horses of different eras but not one of the 20,134 racegoers who turn...

Trainer Mick Price will run True Persuasion in this month's William Reid Stakes but has already conceded the Group One race to champion sprinter Black Caviar.True Persuasion will oppose the runaway...

Black Caviar etched her name in racing history with a record 20th consecutive win on Saturday which amazed her trainer Peter Moody.Black Caviar now holds the modern-day record for consecutive metro...

Galleywood Hurdle victor Black And Bent won't run over jumps again until next month's Australian Hurdle but trainer Robert Smerdon has him well placed to continue on his winning way on the flat at ...

Galleywood Hurdle victor Black And Bent won't run over jumps again until next month's Australian Hurdle but trainer Robert Smerdon has him well placed to continue on his winning way on the flat at ...

Galleywood Hurdle victor Black And Bent won't run over jumps again until next month's Australian Hurdle but trainer Robert Smerdon has him well placed to continue on his winning way on the flat at ...