Man In The Mirror 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, ...

MOONEE VALLEY TRACKWORK TuesdayCourse Proper 12m outGoing Dead 400m: Mirror Man/Spanish Armada 25.72600m: Hot Danish 39.78 (25.77)800m: Quick Peek/Honeymoon Cruise 49.98 (24.41), Pressday 55.36 (25...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

"You gotta cut up rough if you wanna get square in this game," an old harness racing man once told me. What he meant in his cussy way of speaking was simple: Get rid of the no-hopers in a race –...

"You gotta cut up rough if you wanna get square in this game," an old harness racing man once told me. What he meant in his cussy way of speaking was simple: Get rid of the no-hopers in a race –...

Nerve? What's that? A bit of cheek? Not quite the same. Nerve is the thing that gives us the power to carry on. It's the strength to make yet another bet in the face of a fierce losing streak, to...