God Bless 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, ...

Top Brisbane hoop Glen Colless will venture to Sydney for just one ride on Wednesday as he continues a comeback to the saddle following a fall at Doomben last month.Colless will partner the Alan Ba...

Nash Rawiller returned from the Top End to kick-start his premiership defence in the best possible way with victory on Just The Tonic in Sydney's first metropolitan race of the season.Rawiller spen...

Early market movers for Saturday's major meetings (from TAB Sportsbet):ROSEHILL1 Hollyweird $6-$4.80 ($500 @ $6, $1000 @ $5, $440 @ $5)2 Rekindled Alliance $7-$4.20 ($1000 @ $7, $300 @ $7, $1000 @ ...

Darren Beadman has been touched and overwhelmed by the massive support he's received since his decision to retire from race riding. Unable to thank everyone personally, he has written a letter:To m...

Every horse eventually finds its own level and that could be the case with Alan Bailey's gritty Gold Coast performer Frozone.Bailey fears the handicapper may have caught up with Frozone who will ca...

Gerald Ryan is hoping to see a more tractable Road To Summer when the colt races in stakes company for the first time at Randwick on Saturday.An impressive debut winner at Warwick Farm last month, ...