Piolla 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, ...

A country trainer with a knack for buying cheap relations to well-known racehorses has her sights set on a city win with her latest bargain buy.Bathurst horsewoman Sarah Murray-Leslie is hoping Yor...

TAB Sportsbet stats on Saturday's major races:Sunshine Coast - Caloundra CupThe winner, Spechenka, was pretty much unwanted in betting, drifting out from $8 to $11. Most of the money late came for ...

Star jumper Black And Bent will have to set a modern-day weight-carrying record to win Saturday's Leslie Short Hurdle at Morphettville.The Robert Smerdon-trained gelding has been asked to carry 73....

Hiskens Steeplechase prospect Pentiffic pleased his rider Trent Wells when he schooled at Werribee on Monday in preparation for tackling the big fences.Wells and co-trainers Fran Houlahan and Brian...

Hiskens Steeplechase prospect Pentiffic pleased his rider Trent Wells when he schooled at Werribee on Monday in preparation for tackling the big fences.Wells and co-trainers Fran Houlahan and Brian...

David Hayes has a good opinion of three-year-old Rifleman and will test him in stakes company at Caulfield on Saturday when he will shoot for a hat-trick of wins.The colt, who has had only three st...