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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, ...

PRETTY disappointing is how Melbourne Racing Club chairman Mike Symons described the push by Glen Eira Council to escalate the removal of training horses at Caulfield, reports Racing Network. Sy...

 PRETTY disappointing is how Melbourne Racing Club chairman Mike Symons described the push by Glen Eira Council to escalate the removal of training horses at Caulfield, reports Racing Network. S...

Jumps racing will continue in Victoria. This decision was announced by Racing Victoria on Monday afternoon. Certain new conditions will be imposed in a bid to make the jumps safer for horses and ri...

 Trouble looms...Glen Eira councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday night to adopt a 10-point position statement that commits all councillors to advocating for horse training to be phased out so t...

It's all about problems, puzzles and challenges as the Jockey Club sheds the annual burden of an US$8 billion tax guarantee to begin a bright new era next Sunday at Sha Tin, reports Alain Aitken in...

EXECUTIVES from Racing NSW and Racing Victoria will meet later in the month to discuss a proposal to change the system for rating tracks. Racing Victoria chairman Rob Roulston, chairman of stewar...