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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, ...

Hugh Bowman is set to pack his bags and head north for next month's Darwin Cup carnival after all but securing the Sydney jockeys' premiership with a winning treble at Rosehill.The Darwin Turf Club...

Rangirangdoo is considered a kid's pony around the stable but he is proving to be a lethal weapon on the racetrack.The Chris Waller-trained gelding staked his claim for next month's Group One Epsom...

Rangirangdoo is considered a kid's pony around the stable but he is proving to be a lethal weapon on the racetrack.The Chris Waller-trained gelding staked his claim for next month's Group One Epsom...

Hugh Bowman is set to pack his bags and head north for next month's Darwin Cup carnival after all but securing the Sydney jockeys' premiership with a winning treble at Rosehill.The Darwin Turf Club...

Hugh Bowman is set to pack his bags and head north for next month's Darwin Cup carnival after all but securing the Sydney jockeys' premiership with a winning treble at Rosehill.The Darwin Turf Club...

Tye Angland continued his amazing winter ride when he lifted Hadaaf to a thrilling victory in the Listed Civic Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, but the race was one to forget for Sydney's leading jo...