Determination 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, ...

Caulfield trainer Luke Oliver is hopeful that improving stayer Determination can live up to his name and bounce back after injury derailed plans for a crack at the Warrnambool Cup earlier this mont...

Caulfield trainer Luke Oliver is hopeful that improving stayer Determination can live up to his name and bounce back after injury derailed plans for a crack at the Warrnambool Cup earlier this mont...

Caulfield trainer Luke Oliver is hopeful that improving stayer Determination can live up to his name and bounce back after injury derailed plans for a crack at the Warrnambool Cup earlier this mont...

There has been another cobalt positive in Victoria, with the  Terry and Karina O’Sullivan -trained Darragh  returning a sample with the prohibited substance in its system. The positive swab came ...

On Saturday I attended a wedding in Echuca and during the torrential rain that teemed down as the caterers were valiantly trying to prepare the food, under a canopy that was buckling in the conditi...

On Saturday I attended a wedding in Echuca and during the torrential rain that teemed down as the caterers were valiantly trying to prepare the food, under a canopy that was buckling in the conditi...