Restless 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, ...

A VERY mild attack of colic that thwarted South Australian sprinter Stirling Grove from competing in Monday's Standish Handicap at Flemington could have been a blessing, according to trainer Richar...

The Darley juggernaut has dominated this season's two-year-old majors and it is also hopeful Peck can storm into Queensland Derby contention in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben.Peck, a ...

English stayer Manighar has given the Luca Cumani stable confidence this could be its year to win the Melbourne Cup.After going desperately close with second placegetters Bauer in 2008 and Purple M...

Punters who understand and use horse body language as an aid to their handicapping are giving themselves an edge. They are getting a second opinion on the horse's ability, not from papers or the t...

Pouring over the formguide recently, I suddenly realised I’d been “at it” for three hours, non-stop. And I was only up to race 5! It set me thinking. How much is too much when it comes to sitting...

Find something new to say about staking," the editor challenged me. Believe me, it's a challenge. So much has been written in PPM about staking and money management that it seems we've already cov...