Lonsdaleite 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, ...

Trainer Tracey Bartley will have an anxious couple of days waiting to hear if Blake Shinn is available to ride Sniper's Bullet at Flemington on Saturday.Shinn will lodge an appeal on Monday against...

The John Moore-trained Admiration moves into somewhat rarefied air if he can win the Group Three National Day Cup (1,400m) with the top weight at Sha Tin today, but his difficult cause will be assi...

One of the excellent facets of the RWWA website (http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris) is that the formguide is already sitting there for you as early as Wednesday morning for the forthcoming Saturday Perth...

With two weeks remaining only five kilograms and the assessment of his jockey stands between the French stayer Americain and a second Melbourne Cup.Americain has improved so much in his work since ...

Trainer Tony McEvoy is confident French import Kourkam has “come on” since his last start and ready to run a cracking race in Friday’s $170,000 Commercial Club Albury Gold Cup (2000m), reports Rac...

She's seven years old and it's been 18 months since she won a race but Moderna just can't convince her trainer she is ready for life as a broodmare."I keep waiting for her to put in a couple of bad...