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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, ...

IT WAS deja vu all over again ... again. Just a week after Viewed gave Bart Cummings his seventh Caulfield Cup, racing's most recognisable figure was back in the winning enclosure when So You Think...

How good is So You Think? It's the big talking-point question in the wake of his barnstorming spring form. Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell is holding back fulsome praise. He says in his SMH col...

So You Think's spring exploits have earned him the highest rating for any Australian-trained horse since the inception of the world rankings in 2004.The latest World Thoroughbred Rankings, publishe...

Latest Cox Plate betting has So You Think maintaining his red-hot status as fav at $1.45 (9/4 ON), according to the TAB Sportsbet market on Wednesday morning.SO YOU THINK 1.45 1.06 MORE JOYOUS 7.00...

Star colt Denman has raised the bar for his showdown with Cox Plate winner So You Think in next month's Australian Guineas with a dominant win in the Listed Wellington Racing Club Stakes at Caulfie...

You're simply the (10th) best...Is the rest of the world unaware of So You Think's perceived megastar status Down Under? Seems so. Latest World Thoroughbred Rankings, published by the International...