The Devil In Her 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, ...

Dwayne Dunn has picked up the one-off ride on Predatory Pricer in Saturday's Group One Turnbull Stakes after regular spring carnival jockey Steven King failed in his appeal against the severity of ...

Takeover Target's half-brother Predatory Pricer returned to work on Tuesday as he builds towards the AJC Australian Derby in the autumn, and trainer Paul Murray could not be happier with the Group ...

There are few similarities between Predatory Pricer and his half brother Takeover Target except, hopefully, ability.Trainer Paul Murray has Predatory Pricer in his care and believes he has the maki...

The weather will determine whether AJC Australian Derby placegetter Predatory Pricer takes his place in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes field.Bart Cummings has confirmed Derby winner Roman Emperor as a ...

Predatory Pricer warmed up for his Group One assignment in Saturday's Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick with an encouraging track gallop on Tuesday.The Street Cry colt, who is a half brother to in...

Predatory Pricer is likely to miss the spring racing. News surfaced on Monday that the Mick Price-trained star has been taken to the Werribee Veterinary Clinic suffering a hock infection. PP joined...