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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, ...

Just how good is Healy Stakes winner Hay List? He looks exceptional. Jockey Chris Munce reckons he's up with the best sprinters he's ridden. Hay List won the Healy by 5 lens. Munce says: 'I've been...

One winner at $166 in one year would be good...but TWO winners at $166 within 24 hours! That's pretty amazing, even by Knockout Horses standards! That's what our buyers were handed last week. On Th...

Emerging stayer Noble Park is set to build on his growing reputation when he launches his Caulfield Cup campaign at Flemington.Trainer Mike Moroney has always liked the 17-hand four-year-old son of...

Lightly-raced four-year-old Testaguy, who at his race debut beat Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, is furnishing into the horse trainer Steve Richards always hoped he would become.With three wins from...

Lightly-raced four-year-old Testaguy, who at his race debut beat Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, is furnishing into the horse trainer Steve Richards always hoped he would become.With three wins from...

Lightly-raced four-year-old Testaguy, who at his race debut beat Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, is furnishing into the horse trainer Steve Richards always hoped he would become.With three wins from...