Clinched 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, ...

DAMIEN Oliver clinched the ride on Dandino in next month’s Hong Kong Vase when he rang trainer Marco Botti in England. The conversation swung Oliver over the line for the ride in the $2 million G...

Magic Millions update...Last week's MM Wyong 3YO Stakes winner Safusa has all but clinched a berth in Jan's $1 million Gold Coast MM 3YO Guineas (1400m). With almost $100,000 in earnings the Elusiv...

No surprise...Smart sprinter Catapulted bolted home in the $126,000 Straight Six at Flemington on Saturday and has clinched a trip to Brisbane as part of trainer Mark Kavanagh's winter team. Kav sa...

HERE come the Kiwis. The first air cargo of New Zealand contenders for the Brisbane winter carnival arrives on Wednesday and includes two familiar names in Firebolt and The Hombre, reports Bart Sin...

An old ploy trainer Bevan Laming used prior to St Basil's Stradbroke Handicap victory four years ago paid off handsomely when emerging stayer Crossthestart clinched an interstate trip at Eagle Farm...

Leading Australian bookmaker Alan Eskander believes David Hayes is the most likely trainer to end Peter Moody’s dominance as Victoria’s premier trainer in season 2013-14.