Summer Festival 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, ...

Chris Waller will launch a three-pronged attack on Saturday's $100,000 Listed Festival Stakes with Tromso and Altered Boy to lead the charge.Both Tromso and Altered Boy are former winners over 1500...

Best known as a sprinter, Group winner Monton will be out to prove he has another string to his bow in Saturday's Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.Monton's four career wins have been in the 1000-...

In-form Christian Reith will jump aboard Circle Of Power for the first time when the gelding chases a breakthrough stakes success at Rosehill on Saturday.Trainer Rod Craig, fresh from a winner at C...

Underrated gelding Voice Commander gave trainer Nick Olive his biggest career victory so far in the Festival Stakes at Rosehill, with the promise of more to come this summer.Punters who rallied to ...

Darci Be Good's return to the winners' list in the Hawkesbury Cup has fuelled ambitions to win Sydney's summer showpiece, the Grp 2 Villiers Stakes. The Bede Murray-trained 4YO won the Spring Stake...

Rockin' on...Rockwood is back as a key prospect for the Grp 2 1600m Villiers Stakes after a sound barrier trial hitout at Rosehill Gardens on Tuesday. Racing NSW stewards ordered the trial after pu...