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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, ...

That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...

Sir Henry Cecil insists he could not be happier with Frankel as his highly-anticipated clash with Canford Cliffs looms ever closer.The unbeaten colt had onlookers rubbing their eyes in disbelief wh...

AUSTRALIAN superstar Black Caviar won't, in all likelihood, get the chance to try to lower English wonder horse Frankel's colours at Royal Ascot, but another champion from Down Under might get the ...

The Gold Cup is the traditional highlight of the Royal Ascot meeting, but the showpiece race could be overshadowed this year by an opening-day card featuring a stellar cast and an international fla...

  The great Black Caviar will be going back to Royal Ascot this year...

Aussie star So You Think has been installed 5/2 fav with the sponsors to nab back-to-back wins in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown UK next month. The Racing Post says that although Frankel holds an ent...