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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, ...

Racing Victoria has been stunned by the fierce reaction to its bizarre decision to axe jumps racing. 'They are so out of touch it's no wonder they are surprised,' says one jumps racing official. 'T...

With the BMW Caulfield Cup over, the “no vacancy” sign has just about been put up at Werribee as 11 more European horses entered the TAB International Horse Centre on Saturday and are all settlin...

Rachel Alexandra has won the first match-up between racing's leading ladies, beating out undefeated mare Zenyatta for Horse of the Year.Voters chose the fabulous filly for the year-end honour at th...