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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, ...

More dirt to fly...Looks like a city track will be the next to become 'home' to a synthetic racing surface. Racing Victoria has shortlisted Flemington, Caulfield and Pakenham as the three key conte...

Mick Mair is confident Chosen To Fly can take the next step towards a $1 million payday in January when the three-year-old attempts to win at Doomben for the first time on Saturday.Chosen To Fly wi...

The Hong Kong Derby form has passed most of its tests so far, but  Got Fly  can give it another boost by winning the Group Three Queen Mother Memorial Cup (2,400m) at Sha Tin today(May 9), reports...

PERTH trainer Adam Durrant is not concerned that his arrival in Melbourne with vastly improved stayer Mr Moet has been largely overshadowed by the appearance later this month of Western Australia's...

New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...

New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...