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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, ...

Fiddling around with people's lives again...Racing Victoria has put a big question mark over the future of steeplechasing while giving a tentative OK for hurdle racing to continue. The RVL board m...

Can it be true? Racing Victoria is reported to be seriously considering fixing Monday as a day off for racing. At the moment, it's a proposal and, no doubt, the TABcorp mob will want to throw in a ...

A fit and healthy Hay List is ready to resume his career after a lengthy injury break - but maybe not this week.Peter Moody's plan to run Black Caviar in Saturday's Lightning Stakes at Flemington h...

Trainer Leon Corstens will heed the advice of champion jockey Damien Oliver and continue Zabeelionaire's campaign to next month's Group One Queensland Derby.Oliver rode the colt to victory over Sab...

Consistent stakes-class mare Lady Lynette will be looking to round out her racing career a millionaire in the Myer Classic at Flemington.Trained by father and son Tasmanians David and Scott Brunton...

Trainer Joe Pride is resigned to starting Stradbroke Handicap first emergency Ladys Angel in Saturday's June Stakes at Randwick to keep her winter program on track.The mare, who is in Sydney, would...