Dam Reliable 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, ...

Gerry Harvey’s veteran Zabeel gelding Landlocked opened his stakes-winning account at the ripe old age of eight when he captured Friday’s $140,000 Listed Wagga Gold Cup (2000m), reports Breednet. ...

Trainer Murray Baker believes It’s A Dundeel has made good physical progression ahead of the gun Kiwi galloper's first-up run in Saturday’s Group 1 New Zealand Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield...

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...