Give Me Space 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, ...

I must admit to having a real soft spot for the old warriors of horseracing that front up week after week trying their best to win a race for their owners and us punters. Within the space of about ...

When it comes to the Sydney Morning Herald's formguide, it's a case of 'big' is best. The newspaper's Friday morning guide is an example of what an all-round formguide should be. It runs to 20 pa...

Champion jockey Jim Cassidy could be back riding in races as early as next month after a quicker than expected recovery from serious hand injuries suffered in a gardening accident.Cassidy underwent...

Champion jockey Jim Cassidy could be back riding in races as early as next month after a quicker than expected recovery from serious hand injuries suffered in a gardening accident.Cassidy underwent...

Jim Cassidy is one of racing's personalities.Ever ready with a quip or a quote, he has ridden a roller-coaster of controversy and injury and bounced back from it all.But over the past five months, ...

A long time ago, someone told me why he had decided to give up betting. "It was simple, I'd lost my nerve," this man explained. "And once you've lost your nerve it's the end of the game." I alway...