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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, ...

Apprentice Tim Bell plans to resolve a likely career move within days but first wants to land his initial Group One win aboard Border Rebel in the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on Sa...

Toowoomba trainer Richie Stephenson will keep a close watch on the weather but is likely to give Azzaland the green light to make his comeback at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Azzaland is poised to make h...

While the main attention may have been at the MCG on Saturday, it gave seven European horses the opportunity to slip into a rainy and blustery Melbourne for their tilt at the Spring Racing Carniv...

Ortensia will mount her quest for an elusive Group One win in Perth on Saturday but not before trainer Paul Messara chases some smaller spoils at Warwick Farm.Messara will start three runners at th...

The five people entrusted with guiding the future of racing in NSW met officially for the first time on Tuesday.The appointment of the Racing NSW board will be gazetted in state parliament on Frida...

Recovering losses is something that worries all punters. Get too far behind and the prospect of trying to recoup becomes a mountain of problems. We’ve talked in PPM over many years about various ...