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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, ...

Here he blows...Only weeks after being retired, Toorak Toff is back in the business of racing! The 'wind' problem that triggered his sudden departure is believed to have cleared up and now the Grp...

Here They Come, But Fewer of Them.Let's start with a warning: hold onto your wallets!The Melbourne Cup has closed its noms with 230 received, down from 297 last year.The Caulfield Cup has 227, from...

Trainer Trevor Whittington believes a $6000 investment made 13 years ago by owner Warren Roper can reap rich rewards during the upcoming Brisbane winter carnival.Roper outlaid the money for a Canad...

WAS THAT ME?Vigor's $26 for the Caulfield Cup collapsed late last week. I just wondered whether or not it was down to my comments here. Probably not, and probably a weenie bit immodest, but then he...

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN.I'm consolidating what we know and what we have seen/can see at present, in regard to the upcoming carnivals. I should be able to put it on here within a day or two...

North Queensland filly Kiss Me Katy brought a quick end to Golden Slipper plans for Toowoomba colt Temple Of Boom at Eagle Farm.Kiss Me Katy, who scored a sizzling debut win in Townsville in Octobe...