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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, ...

The legal time bomb ticks away...Danny Nikolic must wait until at least the end of month to find out if his appeal against a two-year disqualification for misconduct is successful after Victorian C...

It's decision time for Lee Freedman...The great trainer - very quiet in recent seasons - will make a decision on the next stage of his career in horse racing early in the new year. He's confirmed h...

Is this the one? Four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners may have come up with another star 2YO in Decision Time who whipped rivals in the Panorama Terraces Handicap on Randwick Ken...

It's all over...Rosehill trainer Allan Denham has decided to retire from training. He'll pull down the curtain within the next few weeks. He says: 'I've been going 41 years straight and I need a sp...

A top-two finish for Black Opal winner Decision Time in Saturday's Todman Slipper Trial will be enough to convince connections to pay the Golden Slipper late entry fee.Trainer Clarry Conners said t...

The Brisbane winter carnival is the target for New Zealand's latest Group One winner Time Keeper who will be accompanied by his much travelled stablemate Sir Slick.Trainer Graeme Nicholson says thr...