Rocked 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, ...

The Caulfield Cup has been rocked with the sensational scratching of the second favourite Bande following a veterinary exam at Werribee this morning. Racing Victoria vet Brian Stewart determined ...

Trainer David Hayes has endured one of the worst 12 hours of his career with the sudden deaths of imported stayers Changingoftheguard and Our Aqaleem.Changingoftheguard suffered a ruptured bowel du...

Have we seen next year's Melbourne Cup winner? Glen Boss reckons we have. He was aboard the likely superstar Puissance De Lune who rocked fans with a superlative win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes ...

Fast 'N' Rocking has blazed its way into favoritism for the Golden Rose in a fortnight.  The talented youngster was $8.00 prior to his impressive victory in the McNeil Stakes at Caulfield and he...

Peter Snowden wants the Big Wet to stick around in Brisbane...He is keen on securing a wet track for mudlark Purple for Sat's Grp 1 2400m Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm. PS says: 'I'll be devastated...

Things are picking up for trainer John O'Shea who is building a strong carnival team with fears he may go out of business allayed.The Randwick trainer was rocked a couple of weeks ago by a Court of...