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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 revamped Grand National program has been condensed from two days to one, shifted from Flemington to Sandown and held a couple of months later, but jumps racing participants such as co-trainers ...

Grant Allard, the former strapper of brilliant galloper Lohnro, is used to grooming champions.The 32-year-old Gosford-based trainer is confident he has another rising star under his care in the sha...

The revamped Grand National program has been condensed from two days to one, shifted from Flemington to Sandown and held a couple of months later, but jumps racing participants such as co-trainers ...

Exciting jumper Pentiffic has the world at his feet after he completed a rare treble of wins culminating in the Grand National Steeplechase.If there were any doubts about an invitation to run in ne...

Robbie Laing, who has been feted for two great training performances so far this year, will be at it again on Sunday when he attempts to win the Grand National Hurdle-Grand National Steeplechase do...

EAGLE FARM Acceptances on Saturday 24th July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: 2.5 metres Entire Course. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.20 HAMILTON HOTEL...