Influential 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, ...

She's small and cost only $3500 but Influential Miss showed that just about anyone can be a major player on Melbourne Cup day when she landed the Schiavello Plate at Flemington.Trainer Pat Carey sh...

Finding a way for diminutive mare Influential Miss to increase her value beyond the racetrack won't be trainer Pat Carey's only focus this week.Mornington-based Carey is weighing up a black-type op...

RACE MOVERS...FLEMINGTON1 Snitzerland $15-$6 ($300 e/w @ $15, $300 @ $11, $500 @ $9.50)2 Influential Miss $11-$8.50 ($300 @ $11, $200 @ $11, $1000 @ $9, $800 @ $8, $500 @ $8) Tantrum $11-$7.50 ($10...

The Melbourne Cup invasion is taking shape...One likely runner to emerge 'out of the blue' is the Sir Michael Stoute trained Modun. Latest reports say he may have attracted the eyes of influential ...

THE Australian Jockey Club and Sydney Turf Club have condemned figures compiled in an independent report calling for the formation of a metropolitan mega-club, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Mor...

Unbeaten Black Caviar has been ranked the world's best sprinter in ratings compiled by an influential British thoroughbred publication.In latest Racing Post international ratings released after Bla...