She's Vital 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, ...

Flying Spur mare She's Curvaceous is doing everything to suggest to trainer Grahame Begg she is ready to strike at Randwick on Wednesday.The four-year-old lines up in the Australia Day At Randwick ...

Glen Boss knew star Sydney filly Samantha Miss had the physical requirements to run a big race in the Cox Plate before he rode her for the first time at Moonee Valley.But after learning a bit more ...

Brett Scott couldn't speak highly enough of Yamanaura who further enhanced his excellent record over the jumps when comfortably winning the Barr Smith Hurdle at Moonee Valley.The champion jumps joc...

Peter Snowden has reservations that Beaded can defy Hay List a place in history in the Group One Doomben 10,000 but is confident the mare will get her opportunity if the pair clash again in the $1 ...

Peter Snowden has reservations that Beaded can defy Hay List a place in history in the Group One Doomben 10,000 but is confident the mare will get her opportunity if the pair clash again in the $1 ...

The Peter Snowden stable believes filly Applegate is worth another chance in Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield after having no luck when resuming.The stable won the race for th...