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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, ...

Queensland mining giant Clive Palmer was forced to use his private helicopter to pluck up to 60 people from treacherous floodwaters in and around his horse stud in south-east Queensland, reports Th...

Russell Clarke is one of Britain's most successful professional punters. He writes for the popular magazine Odds On and runs his own Internet site. In this special article, he gives his views on b...

Last month I ran out of space and I still had one “basic betting rule” to cover. This was my liking for Group races and especially for Group 1 races. It stands to reason that anybody who is seriou...

Should we change the way we think when it comes to analysing form? Are you, perhaps, approaching form from the wrong angle? Can you re-think what you are doing to produce a better result? These a...

A long time ago, someone told me why he had decided to give up betting. "It was simple, I'd lost my nerve," this man explained. "And once you've lost your nerve it's the end of the game." I alway...

I attended a private form forum the other week. The attendees were all punters who have made a living from the game for some years now. It’s not the first time we have all got together. Such gath...