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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, ...

If wagering markets were efficient then it would be equally profitable to bet on any racing horse whether it is the favourite or a longshot. However, the “longshot” bias in wagering has been ar...

A daring ride by James Winks helped him land his first Group One win in Melbourne aboard his favourite horse Douro Valley in Saturday's Yalumba Stakes at Caulfield.Winks let the seven-year-old sett...

If wagering markets were efficient then it would be equally profitable to bet on any racing horse whether it is the favourite or a longshot. However, the “longshot” bias in wagering has been arou...

If wagering markets were efficient then it would be equally profitable to bet on any racing horse whether it is the favourite or a longshot. However, the “longshot” bias in wagering has been arou...

If wagering markets were efficient then it would be equally profitable to bet on any racing horse whether it is the favourite or a longshot. However, the “longshot” bias in wagering has been arou...

All punters, hardened or casual, will by now have an opinion about the WS Cox Plate. Doomsayers will scream about the $1.50 and their arguments are strengthened by the article written by Paul Richa...