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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, ...

Promising filly She's A Fox is OUT of the spring racing. She's copped a minor strain to a ligament in the knee., according to trainer Anthony Cummings. Scans have revealed the problem is not career...

Black Caviar update...Peter Moody says superstar sprinter Black Caviar has recently completed a month's pre-training before having another month's spell and then a further five weeks up at Peter Cl...

Unbeaten mare Black Caviar faces her moment of truth when the much-anticipated clash with star sprinter Hay List takes place in Saturday's Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington.The Group One Patinack...

She's back...Barrier neck-turner Dariana has been cleared by Queensland Racing stewards to run in Sat's $500,000 Grp 1 Queensland Derby after trialling satisfactorily on Tuesday morning.Trainer Ton...

Trainer Rob Heathcote plans to raise the bar to next month's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill with talented mare Tomboy if she passes two crucial assignments beginning with Doomben on Saturda...

Apprentice Tommy Berry could be forgiven for feeling some pressure ahead of his ride on Karuta Queen in the Magic Millions Classic.But the 19-year-old is keeping it simple."There's only one reason ...