Lunaite 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, ...

According to some racing people a horse will be fine on a slow or heavy track because the sire was a proven wet tracker. Another comment I have heard is "the mother was terrific in the wet". It fas...

Slow and heavy tracks are s proven great levellers in racing. A million-dollar son of Danehill can be languishing back near last while the horse by the $1500 sire (who cost $3000 at the yearling s...

Heavy rain wreaked havoc on the Easter Monday program at Randwick with two of the three stakes races scheduled for the course proper transferred to the Kensington track and the final race abandoned...

Sid Bowling is a P. P.M. subscriber from Argenton, N.S.W. Sid is an astute judge when it comes to the ins-and-outs of racing. In this two part series, he explains how a study of breeding can trans...

Brisbane filly Demanding Miss will dodge one of Queensland's biggest winter carnival juvenile races in a bid to find her Magic Millions form at Rosehill on Saturday.Trainer Barry Baldwin said the f...

Brisbane filly Demanding Miss will dodge one of Queensland's biggest winter carnival juvenile races in a bid to find her Magic Millions form at Rosehill on Saturday.Trainer Barry Baldwin said the f...