Most Beautiful 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, ...

Danny Nikolic made sure he stayed in the spotlight after being cleared of serious charges on Tuesday when he rode a winning double at his first two rides on the new synthetic track at Geelong.Nikol...

Danny Nikolic made sure he stayed in the spotlight after being cleared of serious charges on Tuesday when he rode a winning double at his first two rides on the new synthetic track at Geelong.Nikol...

Danny Nikolic made sure he stayed in the spotlight after being cleared of serious charges on Tuesday when he rode a winning double at his first two rides on the new synthetic track at Geelong.Nikol...

Danny Nikolic made sure he stayed in the spotlight after being cleared of serious charges on Tuesday when he rode a winning double at his first two rides on the new synthetic track at Geelong.Nikol...

Blake Spriggs was the talk of Sydney racing after a five-win haul at Rosehill which had his boss Gai Waterhouse labelling him the most exciting apprentice since Shane Dye.Most of the attention in r...

Blake Spriggs was the talk of Sydney racing after a five-win haul at Rosehill which had his boss Gai Waterhouse labelling him the most exciting apprentice since Shane Dye.Most of the attention in r...