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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, ...

Punters are expecting a big run from Godolphin two-year-old Astern when the colt makes its debut in the first race at Randwick tomorrow.   Astern has been backed from  $101 into $26  since betti...

Hugh Bowman was delighted with his first feel of Sizzling as Chris Waller's recent stable acquisition stretched his legs in a barrier trial at Randwick, reports Racing Network.

Craig Newitt knows what works for an Australian jockey leading into Royal Ascot, having partnered Miss Andretti to victory in the 2007 King’s Stand Stakes...

Darley’s Group 1 Golden Rose runner-up  Albrecht  had a stirring trial win at Royal Randwick on Tuesday morning, reports Racing Network.. The well-credentialed Redoute’s Choice four-year-old en...

TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes  on Saturday . “This could be the most highly anticipated race of the spring, any o...

Doncaster Mile fancy Rangirangdoo was kept up to the mark for next Saturday's time-honoured Randwick feature with a barrier trial hitout at Warwick Farm on Friday.The Chris Waller-trained gelding f...