Civil War 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, ...

The Australian Jumping Racing Association (AJRA) has vowed to fight a decision to kill off jumps racing after 2010, saying it could ignite a "civil war" within the Victorian racing industry.AJRA pr...

The Australian Jumping Racing Association (AJRA) has vowed to fight a decision to kill off jumps racing after 2010, saying it could ignite a "civil war" within the Victorian racing industry.AJRA pr...

Maxios, trained north of Paris at Chantillyby Englishman Jonathan Pease, goes on trial for the Sportingbet Cox Plate in the Qatar Prix du Moulin at Longchamp on Sunday evening. Although final dec...