Dollar Magic 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, ...

IT WOULD seem there is as much chance of the multi-million-dollar Magic Millions concept coming to Victoria in the near future as there is of the Melbourne Cup being run in Queensland, reports The ...

Queensland Racing Limited (QRL) chairman Bob Bentley is adamant the gala Magic Millions sales and race day will stay at the Gold Coast next year despite a three-way stand-off between the state's go...

Around 70 international buyers are expected on the Gold Coast this week for the first yearling sale since the global economic crisis hit late last year.The Magic Millions sale is expected to attrac...

The outstanding metropolitan winners of four juvenile races down the eastern seaboard of Australia on Saturday joined the rush of quality gallopers heading to next month's $2 million BMW Magic Mill...

Gai Waterhouse has decided against starting Squamosa at Randwick on Sunday and plans to run the colt first-up in the Magic Millions Guineas next month.Squamosa was nominated to make his return in a...

Million-dollar baby Military Rose will be given the chance to chase Golden Slipper history after fulfilling trainer Gillian Heinrich's dream of winning the Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast....