Dream High 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, ...

From NEIL FRANKLYNRUNNINGDOWNADREAM5m : Trainer : Caroline Pomare12 starts : 2 wins : 6 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead : SlowDaughter of High Chaparral who m...

Keepin' The Dream, invariably unfashionable with punters, has the statistics on board to say he will revel in his role as a feature race underdog at Hawkesbury.That's the opinion of one of his bigg...

A narrow but nevertheless convincing debut win by Elimbari has trainer Kris Lees looking to aim high with the well bred two-year-old.A three-quarter sister to brilliant juvenile Amelia's Dream whos...

A narrow but nevertheless convincing debut win by Elimbari has trainer Kris Lees looking to aim high with the well bred two-year-old.A three-quarter sister to brilliant juvenile Amelia's Dream whos...

DREAM AHEAD, rated alongside the brilliant Frankel as the best two-year-old last year, bounced back to form with a bang to give jockey Hayley Turner her biggest success in the Group 1 Darley July C...

HAVING boosted Stradbroke prizemoney to $2 million, Racing Queensland is now keen to internationalise the Winter Carnival and attract high-class foreign-trained runners. Melbourne Cup scout Lei...