Briefly 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, ...

Three-year-old First Command may have only held the track record at Sandown for barely three minutes but trainer Lee Freedman was still predicting an exciting future for the gelding.Officials initi...

Three-year-old First Command may have only held the track record at Sandown for barely three minutes but trainer Lee Freedman was still predicting an exciting future for the gelding.Officials initi...

The hype around Americain winning his second Melbourne Cup continues to grow, according to Adam Hamilton of TAB.com.au. He told PPD: 'A constant flow of money has seen the 2010 Cup winner briefly g...

Group One winning jockey Michelle Payne has a minor neck fracture and will miss the remainder of Melbourne's autumn carnival following a race fall on Saturday.Payne's manager Phillip Roost said Pay...

Ortensia returns to Randwick on Saturday for the Galaxy and this time trainer Tony Noonan is determined to take the Group One sprint trophy home to Melbourne.He and owner Alistair Fraser had their ...

The eleven European horses who arrived at Werribee on Saturday are settling well into their new surroundings in the Newminster Stables at the TAB International Horse Centre. Just a light outing i...