Blitzing 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, ...

Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter says unbeaten mare Black Caviar has the potential to be the highest-ever rated sprinter in the world after blitzing the weight-for-age field to win ...

Former Perth sprinter Hay List confirmed he was an emerging star of the turf by blitzing his rivals in the Group Three McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley."I am still shaking," trainer John McNair said ...

When your half-sister is unbeaten and a former Golden Slipper Stakes favourite then there is plenty of room for optimism.The Mike Moroney-trained Youbolt is a half-brother to Amelia's Dream who a y...

When your half-sister is unbeaten and a former Golden Slipper Stakes favourite then there is plenty of room for optimism.The Mike Moroney-trained Youbolt is a half-brother to Amelia's Dream who a y...

No hitches...Peter Moody's happy with Hinchinbrook to head for the UK and a clash with the world's top sprinters in the Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot. The Fastnet Rock 3YO's sparkling win in a barr...