Maximalist 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, ...

Star Queensland filly Paprika continues to blossom in Melbourne ahead of her assignment in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Trainer Liam Birchley is so impressed with Pa...

Star Queensland filly Paprika continues to blossom in Melbourne ahead of her assignment in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Trainer Liam Birchley is so impressed with Pa...

Apache Cat is favorite for Sat's Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield but price assessors are offering $4.00 (3/1) about the ace sprinter, just a point ahead of Lucky Secret $5.00. The TAB Sportsbet marke...

Trainer Liam Birchley fears a heavy track could blunt Paprika's prospects of making a winning comeback in the Listed Mick Dittman Plate at Eagle Farm.Paprika, a Glen Colless mount, will return in S...

A barrier trial at Doomben on Tuesday will decide if top Queensland mare Paprika heads to Melbourne for the Group One Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Trainer Liam Birchley is pleased with the stea...

It's been a long time coming but former boom juvenile Paprika bounced back to her brilliant best with a big win in the Bat Out Of Hell Handicap at the Gold Coast on Saturday.Paprika was the leading...