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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, ...

Exciting sprinter Sunburnt Land has been killed after being struck by lightning overnight near Melbourne.Owner David Moodie said the freak incident happened on his farm at Romsey as severe storms s...

THE expected downpour in Melbourne tomorrow morning is unlikely to stop the world's premier sprinter Black Caviar from running in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington. But just how fast she will run ...

Mike Moroney is eyeing next month's Group One Lightning Stakes with African Pulse who made a successful return to the track at Caulfield on Australia Day.The Johannesburg colt, sent out $1.50 favou...

The aim of this month’s article is to offer a reasonable method of predicting the winner of the Grp 1 Lightning Stakes. The prestigious race is run in midsummer so we should be almost guaranteed n...

David Hayes' belief that Nicconi is the perfect 1200-metre sprinter will be put to the test in the Group One William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley.The four-year-old is a maiden at the distance after...

Lee Freedman has a problem with First Command other trainers would love to have. His opposition doesn't go fast enough.The four-year-old made it seven wins from nine starts in Saturday's Group Two ...