Sergeant Mavers 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, ...

Rosehill Guineas winner Dealer Principal will be sidelined well into next year because of a leg injury.Trainer Anthony Cummings said Dealer Principal injured himself in a simple trackwork accident ...

Dealer Principal has shown Anthony Cummings he is pleased to be back home after an unsuccessful Melbourne campaign and the trainer expects him to show punters the same at Rosehill.The winner of the...

A luckless Emirates Stakes result has convinced trainer Anthony Cummings to keep Dealer Principal in training to try to snap a spring losing streak.Dealer Principal hasn't been able to win in five ...

The long-awaited return to racing of Group One winner Dealer Principal has been tempered by injury to his stablemate, potential topliner, Trader.Trainer Anthony Cummings said Trader, a comprehensiv...

The jockey who was in the saddle for the most important moment of Dealer Principal's career has been called on to help revive the flagging fortunes of the Group One winner.Peter Robl will be reunit...

A winning return by Group One winner Dealer Principal at Randwick has set him up to again reach the highest level.The 2008 Rosehill Guineas winner spent more than a year off the scene recovering fr...