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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, ...

Wonder what Dad would have said? Latest news is that David Hayes is selling the family's famous Lindsay Park complex. He's planning a full-time move to Victoria. David's legendary father Colin esta...

THE Freedman brothers are leaving their magnificent training complex on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, reports the Daily Telegraph.It says: Anthony Freedman, the sole occupant these days of the f...

The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has opened an investigation after stables at Flemington were entered illegally during the Big Day Out concert on Australia Day.The intruders, who struck in the aftern...

The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has opened an investigation after stables at Flemington were entered illegally during the Big Day Out concert on Australia Day.The intruders, who struck in the aftern...

Dr Tom Brennan, a central figure in the cobalt investigations that are taking place in Victoria and NSW, has admitted to stewards in both states that he has not provided accurate evidence, reports...

Queensland Racing Limited (QRL) is to establish a new industry training facility after acquiring the prestigious Wadham Park training complex and veterinary hospital at Canungra in the Gold Coast h...