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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, ...

A meeting between leading industry figures and the new board of Racing NSW has set the scene for a revision of race programming and handicapping in the state.Proposals for the changes will be sent ...

A meeting between leading industry figures and the new board of Racing NSW has set the scene for a revision of race programming and handicapping in the state.Proposals for the changes will be sent ...

Dragged, kicking and screaming, into the new century...Racing NSW has announced that punters can now bring their laptops to meetings! Hooray! So there is such a thing as enlightenment. The official...

"SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL"A lot of money romped in using this title for a book in (if I recall correctly) the late 1970's by the British economics expert E.F.Schumacher.Maybe it can be beautiful. It cert...

On Melbourne Cup day 2012, I propose that Australia unites against the staying peril from abroad that threatens to overwhelm our nation's greatest horserace. Across the oceans they come for us, com...

Australian Racing Board chairman Bob Bentley says he will negotiate with jockeys to try to avoid a strike over the whip rules but has told other industry participants they are not welcome.Bentley s...