Eight Over 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 Gary Portelli is keen to give American import Eight Eighty Eight a spring campaign but he admits she has to produce some big winter performances to delay her retirement to the broodmare bar...

Trainer Gary Portelli is keen to give American import Eight Eighty Eight a spring campaign but he admits she has to produce some big winter performances to delay her retirement to the broodmare bar...

Speedster Eight Bills restored Gary Portelli's confidence in his ability with a dominant victory under a big weight at Warwick Farm a couple of weeks ago.More importantly, the trainer believes the ...

Brilliant sprinter Eight Bills is set to give Dean Yendall a feature win in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday.Yendall, 36, returned to race riding with one mount at Sandown on...

Brilliant sprinter Eight Bills is set to give Dean Yendall a feature win in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday.Yendall, 36, returned to race riding with one mount at Sandown on...

With eight days left of the quarantine period for the first batch of international horses, the work rate is starting to increase leading towards first raceday outings. With a clearly more sedate ...