Double Glazed 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, ...

Trainer Cindy Alderson hopes Destiny Calls can take a lead from his more-decorated stablemate Hooker Road and bounce back in the Ted Best Hurdle at Moonee Valley.Alderson was at a loss to explain t...

Trainer Cindy Alderson hopes Destiny Calls can take a lead from his more-decorated stablemate Hooker Road and bounce back in the Ted Best Hurdle at Moonee Valley.Alderson was at a loss to explain t...

Lion Tamer has bounced back from a disappointing performance in the past and co-trainer Bjorn Baker is hopeful the three-year-old can do it again at Randwick on Saturday.Lion Tamer runs in the Grou...

In my previous couple of columns I've begun to explain the quick, timesaving method I use to simplify doing the form for a meeting. First of all I look for losers.

What the jockeys had to say after the Melbourne Cup.-GERALD MOSSE (Americain, 1ST): "I will not say it was easy but it's always easy when we win. I travel from the beginning with such a nice horse ...

That feels better...Michael Rodd is now free to ride Rockpecker in Sunday's Canberra Cup and also to ride in an international jockeys' invitational race series in Mauritius the following weekend. R...