Golden Flag 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, ...

Magic Millions Classic winner Military Rose is back in work ahead of her Golden Slipper assignment in April but it will be her stablemate Sweepstaking who will fly the stable flag first in Sydney d...

Magic Millions Classic winner Military Rose is back in work ahead of her Golden Slipper assignment in April but it will be her stablemate Sweepstaking who will fly the stable flag first in Sydney d...

Queensland's Michael Palmer is hopeful of overcoming a slow start in the National Apprentices' Series when he rides the Anthony Cummings-trained General Chaos in the second heat at Canterbury on We...

STAR colt Sepoy will be the Darley operation's flagbearer at Caulfield on Saturday, but there are some talented back-up runners from the Peter Snowden stable in black-type events, reports Bart Sinc...

John O'Shea watched on as Smart Missile earned all the accolades at Rosehill on Saturday, but the Randwick trainer was far from waving the white flag ahead of the Golden Rose.O'Shea, who prepares F...

Unlike past years, trainer Paul Perry is without runners in the two-year-old features and is relying on a couple from the older brigade to fly the flag for the stable this autumn.Sydney Cup-bound N...