Contrived 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, ...

Early money has gone to Girl In Flight at Caulfield on Saturday. The TAB.com.au price changes on Thursday morning are:

Trainer Greg Hickman believes Samantha Miss is one of the best fillies he's seen but he also knows there is no such thing as a sure thing - especially in the Flight Stakes.Hickman has Flying Tryst,...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington's surprise decision to start Femina Fashion at Doomben won't stand in the way of a possible Sydney trip next week for the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick.W...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington's surprise decision to start Femina Fashion at Doomben won't stand in the way of a possible Sydney trip next week for the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick.W...

A breathtaking performance in Saturday's Flight Stakes underscored Streama's dominance of the Sydney fillies features and capped a memorable day for her trainer Guy Walter.Just over an hour after W...

What next for the Black Caviar bandwaggon? It's a spandex body suit! The champion mare will don the custom-made 'sbs' when she flies to London in her quest to prove she's the world's fastest horse...