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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, ...

Relax, it's all OK...Melbourne Racing Club chief executive Alasdair Robertson is adamant that strike action by track and maintenance workers will not delay races on Sat's big Caulfield Guineas prog...

Queensland Derby betting has been turned on its head in the wake of Vilanova's barnstorming win  in the Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben.  Vilanova had been considered a $21 chance in TAB’s Derby...

Tasmania is moving to bring the three racing codes under the control of a single board which will also control the state's totalisator.Racing Minister Michael Aird will introduce the enabling legis...

IRATE senior representatives of harness and greyhound racing have called a public rally to condemn the amalgamation of control of the three codes, reports the Courier-Mail. IT SAYS: The two minor c...

Bart Sinclair, the 'king' of Queensland's racing press, has handed out a stinging attack on the State Govt and its 7-member supremo racong control body. Bart, writing in his Sunday Mail column, say...

Bossy takes a holiday...Glen Boss will not appeal against the offbeat suspension he copped at Caulfield last Saturday. He was suspended for 10 meetings under the rare provision of 'failing to have ...