Common Purpose 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, ...

When it comes to the class division in racing, the average punter usually has a lot of questions to ask. What is the higher class of race - a OMW (no metropolitan win) or a Class 6? How many Maid...

Hello to all my friends in Australia and wherever this magazine finds you. Many of you already know of me because of the Portfolio concept which I provided for Equestrian (and which, I am pleased...

Hello to all my friends in Australia and wherever this magazine finds you. Many of you already know of me because of the Portfolio concept which I provided for Equestrian (and which, I am pleased...

Hello to all my friends in Australia and wherever this magazine finds you. Many of you already know of me because of the Portfolio concept which I provided for Equestrian (and which, I am pleased...

Some time ago, I was chatting with a bookmaker and our conversation ranged over various aspects of betting on the three racing codes. Inevitably, I suppose, we got around to punters as individuals...

So you have a whole swag of winning bets - and you still can't win? If you're that kind of punter, you can take a little heart from the fact that you're not alone. Most punters bet so haphazardl...