Just Can't Say No 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, ...

Chris Waller says he can't split his two chances in an open W J McKell Cup at Rosehill on Saturday.The trainer has elected to start Beijing Boy and Vintedge in the $100,000 Listed event over 2400 m...

Like father, like son...Newcomer to Victorian riding ranks is Jordan Childs, 16yo son of former leading rider Greg Childs. He has has first raceday ride next week. Jordan says: 'There's no pressure...

Many say weight can stop a train but trainer Joe Pride says it won't stop striking grey Hadaaf in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill.The six-year-old has the topweight of 59.5kg in Saturday's 150...

Many say weight can stop a train but trainer Joe Pride says it won't stop striking grey Hadaaf in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill.The six-year-old has the topweight of 59.5kg in Saturday's 150...

Phelan Ready beat the best juveniles of his generation to win the Golden Slipper so it might seem strange that trainer Jason McLachlan has always looked forward to the day the star colt turned thre...

Phelan Ready beat the best juveniles of his generation to win the Golden Slipper so it might seem strange that trainer Jason McLachlan has always looked forward to the day the star colt turned thre...