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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, ...

No surprise that there's been a cynical reaction amongst punters to the news that leading UK bookmaker William Hill has completed its acquisition of Sportingbet's Australian business - for a whack...

Want to buy a TAB? Tasmania is selling its totalisator, TOTE Tasmania.Treasurer Michael Aird on Thursday announced the state government's intention to sell it through a competitive bid process by t...

Despite the announcement on Tuesday that his Patinack Farm racing and breeding operation is on the marke

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...