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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, ...

Malua Racing is looking at a start for Shezaten in the time-honoured Bagot Handicap following her tenacious victory on her home track at Flemington on Saturday.The four-year-old Handsome Ransom mar...

BETFAIR PARK SANDOWN LAKESIDE Acceptances on Wednesday 23rd February, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 12m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-...

Rod Douglas has decided to bite the bullet and run comeback galloper Nato in Saturday's Ken Sturt Handicap at Caulfield.The Mt Eliza trainer scratched the grey from an easier assignment at Sandown ...

Trainer Peter Gelagotis says Belgietto, potentially the best horse he has trained, is almost certain to miss Saturday's Sandown meeting and run at Flemington next month.Gelagotis nominated Belgiett...

Warrnambool trainer Aaron Purcell has seized the opportunity to test up-and-coming three-year-old Yokozuna in a midweek race carrying an unusual prizemoney bonus at Sandown.The $75,000 High Caste H...

Warrnambool trainer Aaron Purcell has seized the opportunity to test up-and-coming three-year-old Yokozuna in a midweek race carrying an unusual prizemoney bonus at Sandown.The $75,000 High Caste H...