Turnaround Time Horse

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, ...

Grahame Begg has been waiting for the right race to put blinkers on Ilovethiscity and he has found it in Saturday's Group One George Main Stakes at Rosehill."It's his first time in blinkers," Begg ...

Chris Waller is guarded on the tactics to be used to spark a turnaround in Group One winner Pressday but the trainer promises one thing ahead of the Hobartville Stakes - his instructions will be de...

Defying the herd? Going against the mainstream? Being a maverick? Dancing to the tune of a different drummer? In punting, few people dare to go against the mass opinion. In this article, Richard H...

FROM European tour operator to leading Brisbane trainer. It has been some turnaround for Robert Heathcote. From driving coaches to conditioning thoroughbreds, such as today's Ipswich Cup contender ...

John Size-trained  Amazing Kids  had to play second fiddle to  Fabulous One  on international day but the talented gelding can end that horse's winning streak in the Pearce Memorial Challenge Cup ...

A forecast for further showers has added to trainer Tony Gollan's frustration with stablemates Listen Son and Spirit Of Boom ahead of the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben on Saturday.List...