Fizzy One 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, ...

Will he tackle Aussie staying races? The Grp 2 Auckland Cup at Ellerslie on New Year's Day went to Australian bred stayer Showcause. A 5YO gelding by Giant's Causeway from former star stayer Showel...

Melbourne stable foreman Reg Fleming will recommend to his boss Bart Cummings that a Brisbane campaign be considered for emerging three-year-old Royal Striker.Fleming said the gelding had proven a ...

Spechenka's Christmas Cup hopes have been boosted with the in-form Queensland stayer coping well with the trip ahead of his first interstate assignment.Trainer Ben Ahrens was concerned how Spechenk...