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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, ...

The  Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra  training partnership have been the in-form stable of the summer and they travel across town to Caulfield on Tuesday with another strong team, reports racing.c...

Super mare Winx has opened at $1.80 with TAB in the market for Australia’s richest weight for age race, April’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Winx’s nearest rival is Melbourne Cup favourite Hartnell at...

Toorak Handicap winner Alamosa will be trying to emulate the great Tobin Bronze in Saturday's $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Tobin Bronze is the only horse to complete the Toorak-Cox Plate d...