On Her Word 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, ...

From NEIL FRANKLYNMARGRETHE4m : K Zimmerman : Otaki18 starts : 2 wins : 4 placesWin distance range : 1625m - 2100mTrack conditions won on : HeavyThis middle-distance wet track performer has steadil...

For many the Melbourne Cup is simply a four letter word - Bart.Australia's greatest living trainer is known to the once a year punter as the Cups King due to his 12 victories in the country's most ...

For many the Melbourne Cup is simply a four letter word - Bart.Australia's greatest living trainer is known to the once a year punter as the Cups King due to his 12 victories in the country's most ...

No Futurity for Black Caviar and no Dubai as well! That's the latest word from trainer Peter Moody. The mighty mare, he says, is now heading to the UK for her next race. Moody says in a special art...

When the big races come around - in the city or the country -  there’s none better for finding the winners than PPD Club tipster Brian Blackwell - and the master-blaster was in top form again on...

Punters are warming to multiple Group One winner Tuesday Joy for Saturday's Apollo Stakes at Rosehill as word spreads about her outstanding build-up to the race.The Gai Waterhouse-trained mare, who...