The Gambling Greek 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, ...

Early price movers for Wednesday, Nov 28 (from TAB):SANDOWN (L)1 Jelly Baby $9 - $4.60 ($900 @ $9, $1000 @ $7.50, $1000 e/w @ $6/$2.33, $700 @ $6, $1300 @ $5, $1000 @ $4.80)3 Clanga's Glory $6 - $3...

Last month I wrote that believing in the Law of Averages is the worst possible practice we can undertake. Belief in it can lead to - and usually does - total disaster. As correct and indisputable ...