Spirited 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, ...

Rock Kingdom provided Gai Waterhouse with her sixth win in the time honoured Group One Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick. The $200,000 Magic Millions Yearling Sale purchase looked set to be nabbed...

Trainer Bev Laming will put his reputation with stayers to the test in Sydney during the spring following Crossthestart's decisive victory at Doomben.The former New Zealand gelding passed his first...

Friday afternoon price movers for Flemington and Scone on Saturday

Queanbeyan trainer Neville Layt is excited about brilliant filly Karuta Queen taking on world champion sprinter Black Caviar in Saturday's Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield."It's a feather in her cap j...

A full brother to five-time Group One winner Racing To Win has fetched $2 million on the opening day of the Magic Millions Yearling sales on the Gold Coast.By Encosta De Lago out of Surrealist, the...

First it was the international trainers who loved Magic Millions graduates. Now its their apprentice counterparts. Flemington today hosted the 2009 Asian Young Guns Challenge, a three leg series fo...