First Law 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, ...

Last month I wrote that believing in the Law of Averages is the worst possible practice we can undertake. Belief in it can lead to - and usually does - total disaster. As correct and indisputable ...

In last month's issue I discussed two laws which will play an important part in your punting. One will help you lose, the other will help you win. They are known as the Law of Averages and the Law...

THE first of what may be a number of positive tests to the banned substance aminocaproic acid has been returned in thoroughbred racing, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.His report s...

Racing Queensland has responded to its State Government's decision not to follow Victoria and NSW in introducing a Minimum Bet Law. It comes after Queensland's Racing Minister Grace Grace declare...

In this article our computer expert Neale Yardley investigates probabilities and dispels some common misconceptions many punters have about the so-called law of averages. During one of my recent ...

The autumn record of recent Caulfield Cup winners isn't too flash but trainer Leon Macdonald is confident Southern Speed can buck the trend.The four-year-old takes the first steps of her ambitious ...