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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, ...

Peintre Celebre gelding Cape Breton, who was once regarded as a Melbourne Cup prospect, is on the rise again.But it is not the famous race at Flemington that trainer Danny Williams has in his sight...

Peintre Celebre gelding Cape Breton, who was once regarded as a Melbourne Cup prospect, is on the rise again.But it is not the famous race at Flemington that trainer Danny Williams has in his sight...

Trainer Danny Williams hasn't given up hope of Cape Breton forcing his way into the Melbourne Cup.Cape Breton, who won the Queensland Cup (3200m) in July, has to win Saturday's Listed Tattersalls C...

A stunning win at Sandown may have booked lightly-raced three-year-old Huxssen a place in next month's Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington.Trainer Rodney Douglas said he would discuss paying...

A stunning win at Sandown may have booked lightly-raced three-year-old Huxssen a place in next month's Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington.Trainer Rodney Douglas said he would discuss paying...

Serious form work is a fascinating part of horseracing. I have often mentioned to friends that I like the unravelling part of racing more than the betting but I also love the staking part of the ho...