Two Faults 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, ...

Bargain-basement buy Twiginthedesert is after his fifth consecutive win in Wednesday's Primacy Handicap at Sandown.The Desert Sun four-year-old, prepared at Geelong by Vin Malady, was bought by par...

A long time ago, someone told me why he had decided to give up betting. "It was simple, I'd lost my nerve," this man explained. "And once you've lost your nerve it's the end of the game." I alway...

Over the years, through dealings with hundreds of mad-keen punters, I've discovered that almost all are, at heart, conservatives. They are not risk-takers. Give a man the choice between a 6/4 fav...

Over the years, through dealings with hundreds of mad-keen punters, I've discovered that almost all are, at heart, conservatives. They are not risk-takers. Give a man the choice between a 6/4 fav...

Over the years, through dealings with hundreds of mad-keen punters, I've discovered that almost all are, at heart, conservatives. They are not risk-takers. Give a man the choice between a 6/4 fav...

You stroll to the teller's window at your local TAB agency, banknotes clutched in your hand. You are about to place $20 on a horse you have selected in a race at Randwick. You hope to win about a ...