I Found You 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, ...

Tracks and ConsistencyLast weekend Caulfield was hopeless if you were back near the rear.Unless you found a way through the pack. Try to go wide early and goodnight.But it's not a big enough track ...

TIME TO ABANDON SHIP.I'm loath to abandon a horse I've identified as a coming winner. But I've found over the years, that even though I'll miss a few winners, I avoid an awful lot of losers by empl...

I have to admit that the sentence above is a rather tricky title.  You will see what I’m getting at as we go along. I was looking at the Sunday results a week or two back, and I found myself looki...

ECONOMY DRIVESOn my way to the Rosehill races I stopped off near Parramatta to have a coffee and thought I knew the bloke sitting at the next table. I walked up to him and we recognized each other ...

IT'S NOT OVERUntil she sings.Well, it's nearly over for Flemington and blow me down they now turn around and think they might even have a good track!Melbourne, huh?I love the place BUT again we lea...

The secret of successful punting is to find some angle that nobody else has found and milk it for all it’s worth before it’s discovered by all and sundry. This angle can and will be found in data ...