Million Thanks 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, ...

Roll up, roll up for the magical transformation of NSW racing - thanks to those nasty corporate bookies and that ever-nasty Betfair mob. They're the ones who'll be funding racing NSW's glittering m...

Australians wagered a record amount on the Melbourne Cup, all thanks to the popularity of the Cups King Bart Cummings and his horse, So You Think. So You Think ran the shortest Melbourne Cup fav...

Thanks to the champion Good Ba Ba, graduates of Hong Kong's international sale maintained a positive profile across the season, but the search for the next Good Ba Ba is proving to be both protract...

Mark Kavanagh is hoping his 'bad luck' with Shocking and the Australian Cup is over...He's pleased with the 2009 Melbourne Cup winner's progress for the Australian Cup but says it's a race with a K...

Connections of the mighty Black Caviar are preparing to make an announcement on the suitor of Black Caviar tomorrow but it appears the lucky stallion is Exceed And Excel.

The Colin Little-trained Ista Kareem outstayed his rivals to land the $700,000 Sydney Cup at Randwick on Saturday.Perfectly ridden by Craig Williams, the eight-year-old settled worse than midfield ...