Duchess Of Milan 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, ...

Much-improved galloper Over Quota will back up in the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield on Saturday week providing he pleases trainer Mark Webb at Moonee Valley.The Testa Rossa gelding has had a ...

He's lean and mean but most importantly he's happy.Four-year-old Giresun has proven a handful for trainer Peter Snowden and has even been known to wear a muzzle to stop him savaging people around t...

Consistent galloper Agrippa might do less work on the training track than most but that is just the way he likes it.The five-year-old is in career-best form and pressing for favouritism in Saturday...

Trainer Michael Lakey won't be looking for any special recognition if promising mare Risk Aversion completes a winning hat-trick at Doomben.Risk Aversion will be ridden by Ric McMahon in Saturday's...

The Peter Moody-trained Mid Summer Music is threatening to upset her stablemate and last year's winner Elumino in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final at Flemington.TAB Sportsbet has Mid Summer Mu...

Foreign raider Ibicenco is missing from Saturday's Grp 2 Herbert Power field at Caulfield. The German stayer will instead be aimed at either the Geelong Cup (2400m) or the Moonee Valley Cup (2400m)...