The Spruiker 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, ...

Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander is keen on Spirit of Boom for Sat's 2YO Magic Millions at the Gold Coast. In his column in the Daily Tele in Sydney, the old spruiker says: 'It was only over 90...

Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar t...

Is the Melbourne Cup run and won already? Seems that most people think so. In fact, So You Think is so hot he could end up around the 6/4 mark on Cup Day! But the Cup outcome is never that simple. ...

One bad run. Always forgive a good horse one bad run, so they say. So who are "they"? The same "they," who are backing "it" in the ring? You know the spiel: "they are backing it", "they've backed...

Paul Simon found fifty ways, at least, to lose his lover. I suppose that there must be at least 500 ways to lose your money and, so far as the racetrack is concerned, we can probably double that w...

Paul Simon found fifty ways, at least, to lose his lover. I suppose that there must be at least 500 ways to lose your money and, so far as the racetrack is concerned, we can probably double that w...