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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, ...

Is James McDonald the best jockey in the world? It might be a premature suggestion but in time the young New Zealander surely will be recognised as such. At Goodwood on Tuesday there were victo...

A while or so back, I offered you an idea based on acronyms, or mnemonics. What on earth is an acronym? If you think back to your schooldays you might well have used them. Who knows, you might ...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed 'Horizontal' who thought he was a ...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

Selecting winners is one thing-backing them correctly is another. Money management, that's what it's all about. Few punters ever really come to grips with how best to invest their cash on the h...