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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, ...

James Packer yesterday became the outright owner of Betfair Australasia when he paid $10 million for the remaining 50 per cent, reports Racing Network. Packer was an original 50-percent sharehold...

Singing,  from the popular Kris Lees stable,  heads up the market for the $175,000 XXXX Gold Newcastle Cup (2200 metres) on Friday. It's one of four runners the local trainer will be saddling up w...

Speaking via telephone link to a press conference at Newmarket on Tuesday morning in preparation for next week's Group One Darley July Cup, leading trainer Aidan O'Brien was full of confidence as r...

Chris Waller intends to press on with plans to run  Zoustar  in the T.J. Smith Stakes after the colt was found to be lame following the Canterbury Stakes. "He is okay (Sunday) morning," Waller ...

Early season two-year-old winner Smart Missile has overcome a minor setback and is set to make his first public appearance since the spring at Rosehill on Tuesday.Smart Missile was scratched from a...

BART Cummings is quietly gaining confidence in his bid for a 13th Melbourne Cup win with a most unlikely horse - the little-known German galloper Illo, reports The Age. Its report adds: The 83-year...