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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, ...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh is doing his best to douse the hype surrounding his top 3YO Shocking as he readies him for the Queensland Derby 2400m at Eagle Farm, probably on a rain-affected track. He says...

A significant drop in class and a wet track have Prerequisite in the frame for a return to the winner's enclosure at Canterbury on Wednesday.Track manager Lindsay Murphy said the inner-city circuit...

Takeover Target has taken South Australia by storm, with a big crowd on hand at a wet Morphettville on Tuesday to see the champion being put through his paces in a track gallop.Trainer Joe Janiak s...

COFFEE ANYONE?Yes, well I'd bet that many of you immediately knew I was going to mention Melito, the three year old filly which has maintained her Group One form for Gerald Ryan and has Blake Shinn...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...