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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, ...

Trainer Guy Walter will be a happy man if the Frank Packer Plate tradition stands up again.Walter will run this year's Frank Packer Plate runner-up Orca in Saturday's Group Three Doomben Classic (1...

The names of two of the best horses from the Ritchie family past were prominent with a feature race double at Ellerslie on Saturday.City of Auckland Cup winner Showcause, trained by Frank Ritchie, ...

Tommifrancs will have few rivals in his bid to give trainer Gerald Ryan a clean sweep of Sydney's summer staying features in the Australia Day Cup.Ryan and jockey Glyn Schofield have combined to ta...

Tommifrancs will have few rivals in his bid to give trainer Gerald Ryan a clean sweep of Sydney's summer staying features in the Australia Day Cup.Ryan and jockey Glyn Schofield have combined to ta...

There was a time not so long ago when trainer Nick Olive doubted Voice Commander could win over further than a mile.Then he decided to "roll the dice" and start the gelding in the Frank Underwood C...

A setback prevented Orca from competing in one Derby but everything is falling into place for a crack at another.A grazed knee ended Orca's chances of running in the AJC Australian Derby (2400m) bu...