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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, ...

JUST THE FACTS M'AM, JUST THE FACTSAs I wrote on the intro, George just wanted the facts. No embellishment.That suits me fine today because I want to make just one point which might make you some e...

The more blog postings I write the more I realize just how many boxes I need to tick to ensure I at least get the minimal amount of correct thoughts out to my readers. On Wednesday the box I forgot...

Visitors WelcomeAsk me in October and I'd have said you were mad to even think it.But then - again - a visitor ran second in the Cup.Yes, in 2008 there was an eyelash in it.This year, not much more...

It was a battle and the usual First Four frustrations surfaced but it wasn't until Race 7 in Perth when I surged to the front for a tiny profit. It would have been a very nice profit for the day pe...

On Saturday Love Conquers All either choked down or had a form of heart failure when he finished last. As he metaphorically "died" a part of my wallet died as well and I started to wonder about the...

In some years during the winter months in Brisbane horses win or race well that are certain to do well in the Spring and we should not dismiss their efforts as just off season racing. Yesterday, at...