Going By Train 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, ...

An exciting, lightly-raced European galloper has been the subject of a longshot plunge on the Melbourne Cup before entries for the race have even closed. Lucas Cranach, a son of Mamool (who ran in ...

Dean Hawthorne didn't intend to buy anything but stayers when he arrived at the Karaka yearling sales last week.However, the Waikato bloodstock agent ended up paying $NZ625,000 ($A504,398.35) for a...

Dean Hawthorne didn't intend to buy anything but stayers when he arrived at the Karaka yearling sales last week.However, the Waikato bloodstock agent ended up paying $NZ625,000 ($A504,398.35) for a...

One of the great ongoing debates in the racing world is the question of weight and the effect that it has on horses in a race. I’d like to put a couple of thoughts in your head about this issue, s...

John Thompson might have left his position as Bart Cummings' long-time foreman to train for Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm but the Cups King is still making his presence felt.Thompson celebrated a ...

Ross McDonald says promising three-year-old Swift Bay gives him his best chance yet to win the A R Creswick Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.The 1200m Listed Race has special significance for McDon...