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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, ...

The earth moved for Laurence Eales on Tuesday as the former rodeo rider from Cairns claimed a stunning Melbourne Cup win with Shocking.Once Eales' earth moving company EA Hire furnished him with en...

Oh, really! NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy is off-beam if he thinks Stathi Katsidis is going to 'name names' in the big ecstasy uproar. Does Murrihy really expect Stathi to dob in other riders? It's...

WITH wins in the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate, Bart Cummings has already left an indelible mark on this year's spring carnival, and the renowned trainer will have a big impact on the Melbourne Cup e...

Stephen Farley has wasted little time moving on from Sincero's latest autumn hard-luck story, declaring the dual Group One winner a definite Queen Elizabeth Stakes starter.Adding more intrigue to w...

Sometimes, the simplest aspects of racing defeat the ordinary punter. I could cite money management as an example. Reduced to its basic level - flat stakes - betting is an easily operable form of ...

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...