Spinner 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, ...

COME IN SPINNER...Or sucker?Godspeed. Cost more than you and I can even dream of.We've been told about him for months.How incredibly good he'll be.How good he already IS.Possible champion, in fact....

Five-year-old Freereturn will be looking to complete his transition from maiden to open class this campaign with a grand final victory in the Betfair Handicap at Sandown.After being winless in his ...

Promising two-year-old Hot Spin has snared an extra $100,000 for his connections after scraping into the Wellington Racing Club Inglis Bonus Handicap at Caulfield.Hot Spin was first emergency for t...

In amongst all the hype about the Rosehill Guineas meeting the races at Broken Hill were almost lost in the ruck except for an occurrence that should be applauded. The 7yo Nozi has been a terrific ...

áIn amongst all the hype about the Rosehill Guineas meeting the races at Broken Hill were almost lost in the ruck except for an occurrence that should be applauded. The 7yo Nozi has been a terrific...

MUDGEE horseman Tracey Bartley is changing course with great money-spinner Sniper's Bullet after the gelding's dashing victory in Saturday's $1 million Railway Stakes in Perth, reports the Sydney M...