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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, ...

Bouncing back? Sakae Kunieda, the trainer of top Japanese stayer Meiner Kitz (a Melbourne Cup prospect) is apparently keen to 'raid' the spring with his Aussie-bred 3YO Break A Theory. The target w...

AFTER a week where everything seemingly went wrong, Robbie Laing is confident that Victoria Derby winner  Polanski  can still have an impact on the Australian Guineas, reports Racing Network.

There's unprecedented Australian interest in Sunday's Dubai World Cup meeting and TAB Sportsbet already has markets open on six of the feature races. The most recently opened markets have Caulfield...

It's warming up...Tony Vasil has decided that his promising 3YO Altius will target the 2500m Grp 1 Victoria Derby, worth $1.5 million, at Flemington on Oct 30. He'll avoid the Caulfield Guineas and...

Sizing us up again...Game Kiwi stayer Harris Tweed, last year's Caulfield Cup runner-up, is all set for another Aussie campaign. He is likely to tackle the Australian Cup but his #1 autumn target i...

Early autumn expectations were low for Darci Be Good but that all changes heading into the Group One Rosehill Guineas.The dual stakes winner has had three runs this preparation and gets to a distan...