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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, ...

Globetrotting trainer David Hayes will look to bring down the curtain on the Lindsay Park era with success on the other side of the world with Nicconi in the July Cup at Newmarket tonight (Saturday...

Sensational tipping by the PPD Club’s Brian Blackwell on Saturday. The amazing BB went ‘against the crowd’ in tipping superb winners ICONIC $16.50 and IT’S A DUNDEEL $8.00 at Caulfield – and...

WHAT A STRIKE!  $2598 FOR A $6 bet!   How do you hit a $2598 trifecta with a 3-horse bet costing only $6? You need a winner at 10/1 and placegetters at 20/1 and 8/1 - and that's what the...

For over a decade, I’ve sold and counselled in the use of record-keeping software for handicappers. Keeping and analysing betting records is both the thing that handicappers least like to do – m...

One thing learned early in my betting life was to get some pattern of approach in both the selection and the staking processes. Racing is definitely not for the guessers of this world, or really ...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club is comfortable with its efforts to achieve transparency in bloodstock dealings despite the strong penalties meted out in Australia in the past 10 days over two hors...