Smart Bint 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, ...

Trainer Rod Douglas says Flawless Gem will be on trial for a start in the South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes when she runs at Sandown on Wednesday.Douglas will start both Flawless Gem, a $330,0...

Trainer Leon Macdonald believes Augusta Proud has as good a chance as any other horse in the Goodwood field of beating Takeover Target, but indications are it is a pretty slim one.Bookmakers are on...

A filly with a close maternal connection to a Golden Slipper winner and a Victoria Derby hero ran the fastest of 12 Sydney two-year-old barrier trials on Monday.Most of the 81 babies who contested ...

Exciting colt Atomic is unlikely to be a late entry for the Blue Diamond Stakes despite a stunning debut win at Sandown.Trained by Lee Freedman, the impressive looking two-year-old had a growing re...

Brad Rawiller is dismissive of the big odds offered about Gold Coast Magic Millions winner Phelan Ready who he rates as a great chance of causing an upset from the outside gate in the Golden Slippe...

Trainer John O'Shea believes rising star Pampelonne and history are the main obstacles standing in the way of Sea Siren winning the Group One Doomben 10,000 on Saturday.O'Shea's confidence in claim...