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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, ...

Trainer Rex Lipp believes Queensland Guineas winner Express Air could be vulnerable in her comeback at Eagle Farm ahead of an ambitious campaign which could culminate in Sydney next autumn.Express ...

Claire Bird has experienced the thrill of Doncaster success watching from the Randwick grandstand, but never from horseback on the hallowed Randwick turf.That could change on Saturday.Bird became i...

Allan Sharrock believes Opie Bosson will need to produce a faultless ride on Hollindale Stakes winner Shez Sinsational to give the New Zealand trainer his first Australian Group One victory in the ...

Burdekin Blues returned to his brilliant best to clinch a late Melbourne spring carnival trip with a commanding victory at Eagle Farm.Burdekin Blues, having only his second start since suffering a ...

Burdekin Blues returned to his brilliant best to clinch a late Melbourne spring carnival trip with a commanding victory at Eagle Farm.Burdekin Blues, having only his second start since suffering a ...

Leading Hong Kong trainer John Moore is planning to travel to Australia with his Singapore Gold Cup winner  Dan Excel . Moore is keen for the impressive Dan Excel to contest this year’s Cox Plate,...