Pretty Extreme 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, ...

TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes  on Saturday . “This could be the most highly anticipated race of the spring, any o...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Extreme Mover has emerged as a serious contender for next month's Magic Millions, firming to second favouritism behind Ambers Waltz.Extreme Mover's dominant victory at Ro...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Extreme Mover has emerged as a serious contender for next month's Magic Millions, firming to second favouritism behind Ambers Waltz.Extreme Mover's dominant victory at Ro...

Tony McEvoy  is expecting significant improvement from  Concealer  when she lines up in Saturday’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. The daughter of  Nicconi  is currently r...

HE DROPS a whopping 4.5 kilograms in weight, but Australia's best jumper Black And Bent will be at his most vulnerable on Sunday when he tackles the $100,000 Lafferty Hurdle at Warrnambool, accordi...

Bart Cummings unveiled another potential top-class filly at Canterbury on Wednesday when Ardeche scored an impressive debut win.The well-bred two-year-old came from a long way back in the field to ...