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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, ...

From Racing Post UKFRANKIE DETTORI got the fractions spot on aboard Holberg, who led from the start before battling gamely to see off the late challenge of 33-1 outsider Pink Symphony by a short-he...

One of Melbourne's top professional form students contributes this two-part series to PPM In it, he discusses in detail the various characteristics of racing how races are run and the general raci...

from RACING POST HK (www.racing.scmp.com)Stewards yesterday laid down the law to jockeys with significant penalties for Jeff Lloyd and Terry Wong Chi-wai for faulty rides last Wednesday night at Ha...

Gai Waterhouse is looking to have four Golden Slipper runners but her biggest concern is getting the favourite into the race.More Joyous is at $4.50 in markets on the world's richest race for two-y...

100 Great Betting Ideas In this series so far, we have looked at 52 of our Great Betting Ideas. Now we go from number 53 and this is to do with horses resuming from a spell, one of the most tri...

Jockey Brett Prebble had another dream day at Sha Tin today as he partnered both champion Sacred Kingdom to a memorable comeback in the HKG3 Sha Tin Sprint Trophy and potential champion Lucky Nine ...