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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, ...

If you have ever wondered what a contract involves ask the Victorian TAB. A friend of mine had a sizeable bet on Zarita in the Australian Cup based on a dead track, his opinion that the mare would ...

áLast night as the witching hour stole upon me - its approach masked by the sound of raindrops flung from the clouds in wretched pacts of ankle-deep treachery (a month's worth drenched Melbourne in...

We punters need to keep our eyes wide open all the time otherwise we miss important clues that could help us snag a juicy priced collect. This weekend all country roads lead to the three day Swan H...

Do punters give staking plans a fair go? Frankly, I don't think they do. Quite a few friends of mine have started off following certain staking approaches and then simply discarded them when a few...

A friend of mine-a punter who bets in $10 units, and never more than about $50 or $60 every Saturday-had dinner at my home recently. Naturally, the evening's talk centred almost solely on horse-ra...

A friend of mine-a punter who bets in $10 units, and never more than about $50 or $60 every Saturday-had dinner at my home recently. Naturally, the evening's talk centred almost solely on horse-ra...