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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, ...

Frankie cops it - but not too much...France's governing body France Galop has suspended UK ace Frankie Dettori from riding worldwide for six months for a "serious infraction of the doping rules". T...

Frankie Dettori will be aboard the Godolphin stayer Kirklees in the Melbourne Cup. Kerrin McEvoy will be aboard the stable's second runner Crime Scene. Damien Oliver is confirmed for the Chris Wall...

Outstanding juvenile Frankel destroyed his rivals and kept his unbeaten record intact at Ascot with Frankie Dettori the other star of the afternoon with four winners.Frankel is now a red-hot favour...

TAB Sportsbet has Fixed Odds markets now open on all 6 races from Day 1 of Royal Ascot tonight. Race 1: Special Frankel 'Out' market tonightBULLET TRAIN 51.00 EXCELEBRATION 1.75 INDOMITO 34.00 PREM...

From Racing Post UKNICCONI, a general 4-1 favourite for next Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes, completed his preparation for the 5f Group 1 contest with an exhilarating display under big-race jockey F...

Melbourne Cup winner Americain has injury problems after his game 3rd in Sunday's Grp 1 Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin. He was galloped on when the pace slackened soon after the start. This caus...