Cool Target 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, ...

Royal Ascot winner Judgethemoment is emerging as a potential Melbourne Cup prospect, though his trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam doesn't seem convinced about the target. She says: 'The owner would like to...

  Exciting staying prospect Super Cool has returned to trainer Mark Kavanagh’s Flemington stables to begin preparations for the Spring Racing Carnival.

WITH All Too Hard appearing to have a mortgage on Saturday's $500,000 Australian Guineas, the second tier three-year-olds are now opting for the rich $1 million Australian Cup the following week, r...

Anthony Cummings is plotting a similar program to last spring for Zavite after questioning whether he is good enough to compete in next week's Caulfield Cup.The six-year-old son of Zabeel is among ...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...