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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, ...

West Australian trainer Dan Morton may have had his confidence dented when Bliss Street was beaten last start but he remains optimistic about the filly's chances in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfiel...

New Zealand's best racehorse Wall Street made up for his Cox Plate failure when he finished strongly for a determined win in the $1 million Emirates Stakes at Flemington.Palmerston North trainer Je...

The relationship between Randwick trainers and the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) remains tense amid reports the main stable blocks on the High Street side of the course are to be demolished to make ...

New Zealand's reigning Horse of the Year Mufhasa stormed back to his best form with a dominant win in the Group One Fully Fledged Weight-For-Age (1600m) at Otaki on Sunday.The Stephen McKee-trained...

New Zealand's reigning Horse of the Year Mufhasa stormed back to his best form with a dominant win in the Group One Fully Fledged Weight-For-Age (1600m) at Otaki on Sunday.The Stephen McKee-trained...

Mike Moroney will chase a Group One double on Saturday with King Pulse's Galaxy chances hinging on how the lightly-raced sprinter handles the Sydney way of going.King Pulse, stablemate of AJC Austr...