McMunigal 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, ...

EVERY Melbourne Cup runner will have a security guard in the 24-hours leading into the Cup, reports Racing Network.  Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey says the security policy worked we...

HERE THEY COME!The "champions" will emerge after this weekend. One or two per week for the next five or six weeks.Several will never amount to much.Maybe, just maybe, one will actually be a champio...

Warpath, who posted her first win in modest circumstances less than 12 months ago, will provide the Group One focus for a select John O'Shea team at Rosehill on Saturday.O'Shea will saddle up two-y...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club will support a move to introduce a new category of black-type races, so-called Super Group One races. In an Asian Racing Conference session titled "The Pattern: Now and ...

ALL WILL BE REVEALED... OR NOT.Today, August 28, we will see some super racing in both Sydney and Melbourne.In a nutshell, we may see the winners of the big spring races.Or we may not.Look, it's th...

Chris Waller has every reason to be confident about his stable's Group One prospects in two states next Saturday.Shellscrape is not one of the favourites for the Newmarket Handicap (1200m) but the ...