Mysterious Girl 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, ...

For the first time in three years of taking Belong To Many to the races, Canberra trainer Barbara Joseph will be going home without her.The consistent stakes performer is among the horses to be sol...

A trip to England with stablemate Black Caviar is among the plans for King's Rose but the mare won't simply be a travelling companion.A Group One winner in New Zealand before being transferred to P...

Chris Waller's overnight success has been a decade in the making, and he is just getting started.The 37-year-old joined an elite group of trainers on Saturday when he brought up his 100th winner fo...

There are man patterns in racing. Horses tend to race in a certain 'pattern' and often you discern coming winners by looking for changes in the way a horse runs from race to race. Some years ago,...

There are man patterns in racing. Horses tend to race in a certain 'pattern' and often you discern coming winners by looking for changes in the way a horse runs from race to race. Some years ago,...

If you had been a reader of the May issue of PPM, you would have struck a host of excellent winning bets. The winners were right there in front of you. Some examples: Solo Affaire (13-2) and Exci...