High Done 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, ...

Big race wins are nothing new to Max Whitby but he will get extra satisfaction if Scarlett Lady lives up to her billing in the Queensland Oaks.A director of the Australian Turf Club and a long-time...

Trainer Chris Waller is relishing the opportunity to see stable star Triple Honour in action on a good track in Saturday's Group One George Main Stakes at Randwick.The four-year-old has worked stro...

Villiers Stakes winner Monton will spearhead trainer Ron Quinton's autumn team with a tilt at the Group One Doncaster Mile his goal.Quinton said the five-year-old had pulled up well despite endurin...

Nash Rawiller believes the best of his Caulfield Guineas mount Dreamscape will not be seen until next preparation.But the leading rider is also confident the colt already possesses enough ability t...

Hong Kong star Mighty High gives champion Darren Beadman what he believes is his best chance to become the eighth jockey to complete Australian racing's grand slam in Saturday's $2.5 million Caulfi...

ROSEHILL trainer Chris Waller has high hopes of securing a two-state, feature-cup double on Saturday at his home track and the Sunshine Coast, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: Waller will...