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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, ...

Could Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller achieve the unthinkable – train every winner on  the card at his home track at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday?   As Waller powers toward another premier...

All is in readiness for Bart Cummings to attend the Melbourne Cup with the master trainer released from hospital on Sunday after a health scare.The thought of the 150th running of Australia's most ...

For a sport with a heritage based on gambling

N A week's time, Luke Nolen's face may well be broadcast around the globe as the rider of the world's fastest horse, Black Caviar, following her run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in ...

Tim Haley won nearly $AI.5 million on the thoroughbreds last year. Which was better than 2001, in which he earned $1.23 million, and certainly better than 2000 when he pocketed a measly $965,000. ...

The ruination of most punters when applying a staking plan, usually revolves around an incorrect mixture of expectation and realism. The expectation is that they will pick winners on a fairly reg...