Listening Is Doing 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, ...

I knew the lure of Fox Classics would get to me eventually and here I am watching/listening to an episode of "Gunsmoke". Things will only get "worse" because I have only recently started subscribin...

You would like to back a winner every two selections? That’s a 50 per cent win strike. Some dream! But maybe it’s not so crazy. After all, picking two horses a race and making a ‘book’ by savin...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams won his third Bendigo Cup when Tanby easily held out his higher-weighted stablemate At First Sight, but it might not be enough to get the Galileo gelding into the Mel...