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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, ...

Another lucrative pay day looms for Diamond Earth at Rosehill when the Anthony Cummings trained filly attacks the $250,000 Inglis Classic.Halfway through the season, Diamond Earth is the poster gir...

Sydney's premier trainer Chris Waller and jockey Glyn Schofield combined to win the $120,000 Listed Wyong Gold Cup for the second year in a row on Friday when The Verminator raced to a strong victo...

Caspar Fownes again leads the Happy Valley trainers' list for the season and he should hold the key to the featured Manawatu Racing Club Challenge Trophy (1,000m) there tonight with Disciples Twel...

A brilliant first-up win for the season makes  Born In China the horse to beat again rising in grade tonight (Oct 7) in the Ireland Trophy (1,200m) at Happy Valley. The Francis Lui Kin-wai-traine...

Gai Waterhouse is preparing to take her biggest team to a Melbourne spring carnival on the back of Descarado's Cup success at Caulfield last year.Leading the charge for the Waterhouse team will be ...

Apprentice Nathan Berry learned quickly after an earlier dressing down from Gai Waterhouse to claim his first winner for the champion trainer on Flying Success.Waterhouse had words with Berry after...