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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, ...

Controversial Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile is back in the running for autumn carnival spoils.Smart Missile took part in a hastily-arranged jumpout in front of stewards on Monday and was ...

TRAINER Gai Waterhouse may have dominated yesterday's Randwick barrier trials in Sydney by winning more than half the program, but it was the gifted Anthony Cummings-trained three-year-old Smart Mi...

Boom colt Smart Missile will go into uncharted waters on two fronts when he lines up in the $1 million Group One Golden Rose on Saturday.The three-year-old has never raced second-up and he has neve...

When it comes to boom colt Smart Missile, trainer Anthony Cummings is just about talked out."There's nothing much more to say now, it's time for him to come out and do the talking on the track," Cu...

One of Australia's oldest metropolitan jockeys has been called on to help revive the career of one of the most precocious talents in Sydney's newly-crowned premier stable.Rodney Quinn, 50, emerged ...

Spring plans for unbeaten colt Smart Missile are still to be determined but the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington is looming as a major goal.The youngster is raced by Eduardo Cojuangco's...