Northern Raider 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, ...

When Does The Garbage Stop?Yes every year it happens. Several of our trainers, and several well-known tipsters and radio jocks, fall over themselves to tell us how much better some horse (that we'v...

Larry's Never Late pleased trainer Rod Douglas and jockey Nash Rawiller with his placing on a heavy track in Saturday's Rough Habit Plate and will press on to the Queensland Derby.The three-year-ol...

Larry's Never Late pleased trainer Rod Douglas and jockey Nash Rawiller with his placing on a heavy track in Saturday's Rough Habit Plate and will press on to the Queensland Derby.The three-year-ol...

Larry's Never Late pleased trainer Rod Douglas and jockey Nash Rawiller with his placing on a heavy track in Saturday's Rough Habit Plate and will press on to the Queensland Derby.The three-year-ol...

Coniston Bluebird's chances of competing in the New Zealand Derby are improving with trainer Bede Murray saying he is more than a 50 per cent chance to make the trip.Murray said there were excuses ...

Coniston Bluebird's chances of competing in the New Zealand Derby are improving with trainer Bede Murray saying he is more than a 50 per cent chance to make the trip.Murray said there were excuses ...