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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, ...

Trainer Clarry Conners found the perfect remedy for his week-long battle with the flu and he found it in the most unusual of places - standing in the mounting enclosure at Canterbury on a wet and u...

Super Saturday looms as the crisp easily-downed 'first beer' in what might just prove to be the longest of long weekends. These three days of supposed rest kick off with the timeless Newmarket Hand...

Excitement builds at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday, 13 August with San Domenico Day marking only four weeks to the opening Group 1 event of the Sydney Spring Carnival, De Bortoli Wines Golden Ros...

In this article, PPM editor Brian Blackwell reviews a new book by the colourful English professional punter Dave Nevison, called A Bloody Good Winner and examines what Nevison has to say about bei...

Champion jockey Glen Boss could be riding again in two weeks despite fracturing his upper left arm in a jumpout at Flemington.Boss, 42, was riding 2010 Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily in Friday ...

Sydney's premier jockey and trainer, who rarely join forces, will be looking to cap a successful week together at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Gai Waterhouse has called on the services of Hugh Bowm...