Gold Spirit 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, ...

The names of two of the best horses from the Ritchie family past were prominent with a feature race double at Ellerslie on Saturday.City of Auckland Cup winner Showcause, trained by Frank Ritchie, ...

Zac Purton put on a riding clinic with a four-timer at Happy Valley on Wednesday night that gave his jockeys' championship hopes a boost at a critical juncture of the season and delivered a featu...

Racing Victoria (RV) has launched a new marketing campaign in partnership with Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) and Country Racing Victoria (CRV) to promote the late summer-early autumn period of elit...

Signs. Vital signs. Stay alive or die on the punt. We’re looking at some of the most vital signs this month and next. In any business, certain fundamentals cannot be ignored. We’ve all seen signs ...