Fame 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, ...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winning jockey Jim Johnson is one of seven inductees to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.Two jockeys, two trainers, two horses and one associate will be officially instal...

Talented filly Set For Fame made an impressive return to racing after suffering a bleeding attack last spring when she won Kevin Hayes Stakes at Caulfield.The only filly in Peter Moody's stable who...

Talented filly Set For Fame made an impressive return to racing after suffering a bleeding attack last spring when she won Kevin Hayes Stakes at Caulfield.The only filly in Peter Moody's stable who...

Peter Moody says it's decision time for Set For Fame who could take on Denman in the Australian Guineas if she impressively wins Saturday's Group Two Angus Armanasco Stakes at Caulfield.The daughte...

Leading trainer Peter Moody says Set For Fame is in good shape for her attempt at a belated Group One win in Saturday's Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Rosehill.A three-time Group Two winner and a Grou...

Classy mare Set For Fame impresses trainer Peter Moody as deserving of a Group One win and may get her chance in next month's Emirates Stakes at Flemington.The daughter of Reset suffered a virus in...