Humid 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, ...

Australia is on the drift in betting for the UK Derby but the favourite's jockey Joseph O'Brien remains excited about his prospects, reports At The Races. O'Brien and his father Aidan became the ...

By MURRAY BELL in Racing Post HKHong Kong's raiders face an uphill battle in today's Yasuda Kinen in Tokyo, and even from more favourable barriers Armada and Sight Winner would have their hands ful...

Lee Freedman didn't take much out of Group One-winning stayer Speed Gifted's first-up run in Sydney other than that he expects the gelding to significantly improve in Saturday's Ranvet Stakes.The i...

Lee Freedman didn't take much out of Group One-winning stayer Speed Gifted's first-up run in Sydney other than that he expects the gelding to significantly improve in Saturday's Ranvet Stakes.The i...

Trainer Tony Vasil wants to take Kevin Heffernan Stakes winner Lucky Secret overseas, with New Zealand, Dubai and England his favoured options.The Rubiton six-year-old made it 14 wins from 23 start...

One of the oldest maxims in racing is that you cannot win by betting on every race. For many years, I have added to this my own ruling that you cannot win by betting on every type of race either. ...