Exalted Maxine 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, ...

A delayed flight caused Craig Newitt to miss his Epsom Handicap ride but the top Victorian jockey still made his trip count with a Group One victory aboard The Verminator in the Metropolitan at Ran...

Outstanding mare Melito has been retired from racing and will go to the breeding barn later this year.The four-year-old beat just one runner home in Saturday's BTC Cup won by Black Caviar and after...

A preparation ago, Rain Affair had the talent but didn't have the looks.Now he is the complete package.Well, almost."The best thing about this horse is he's going to keep improving and I don't just...

Colac trainer Bill Cerchi is daring to dream with Diamonds At Dusk who will be on trial at Caulfield for a start in next month's Group One Goodwood Handicap.Cerchi, who has been training for 28 yea...

Next year's Melbourne Cup is firmly in the sights of young trainer Cieran Maher after the much-deserved win of his top stayer Moudre at Flemington. CM says: 'We've been pretty unlucky all the way t...

Danleigh has never trialled better and talented three-year-old Masquerader is in for an exciting autumn carnival.That was the assessment from top jockey Hugh Bowman after he partnered the two quali...