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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, ...

What's going on? Is there going to be a hike in the tax racing pays to the State Govt in Victoria? A rise in the tax on a bet? Questions like this are being raised after reports that Victoria Racin...

Want to buy a TAB? Tasmania is selling its totalisator, TOTE Tasmania.Treasurer Michael Aird on Thursday announced the state government's intention to sell it through a competitive bid process by t...

  Queensland's racing inquiry begins public sittings today, with former industry heads and several former Bligh government ministers summoned to appear. Justice Margaret White is examining activit...

Big upheaval underway in Queensland racinfg following Labor's exit from government...The Brisbane Courier-Mail reports that the LNP Government has placed an 'expenditure cap of $20,000' on Racing Q...

Oops, how did they manage to do that? News Ltd reports that Australia's wealthiest race club will report a record profit at the end of the financial year - but a massive loss for its racing activit...