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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, ...

In-form trainer Desleigh Forster will give saddle-warming jockey Ric McMahon free rein when he partners quality galloper Easy Running in the Vo Rogue Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Easy Running will ...

Expensive yearling Running Tall has booked a start in next month's Golden Slipper Stakes after a runaway win in the Group Two Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington.The son of 2005 Slipper winner Stra...

Dry weather is working against Warrnambool trainer Aaron Purcell's attempts to have imported jumper Dhaafer ready for the $250,000 Grand Annual Steeplechase at his new home track.Dhaafer, who arriv...

Off and running...TAB Sportsbet has launched its Fixed Odds markets for the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate. On Saturday, TAB Sportsbet will offer $35 on last year's winner Shocking, whi...

Danny O'Brien believes the addition of blinkers to Running Tall gives the colt the chance of upsetting odds-on favourite Sepoy in Saturday's Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.O'Brien, who won the $1...

Gold Coast three-year-old Biggles burst into Magic Millions Guineas contention after claiming the Listed Gold Edition Plate on protest at Eagle Farm.The Desleigh Forster-trained Easy Running ($5.50...