Warrior Chief 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, ...

Nash Rawiller will miss the rest of the Melbourne Cup carnival after being suspended for his ride on Our Desert Warrior in the Victoria Derby at Flemington on Saturday. Rawiller was found guilty of...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh's luck has taken a turn for the better with Shocking putting in a sparkling effort to win the Lexus Stakes, his final lead-up to the Melbourne Cup.The Kavanagh-trained Victori...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh's luck has taken a turn for the better with Shocking putting in a sparkling effort to win the Lexus Stakes, his final lead-up to the Melbourne Cup.The Kavanagh-trained Victori...

Owner Gary Adrian showed he was a shrewd judge of horses as well as in business when The Clandy Man Can booked a long-range winter carnival campaign at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Adrian paid only $800...

The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has opened an investigation after stables at Flemington were entered illegally during the Big Day Out concert on Australia Day.The intruders, who struck in the aftern...

The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has opened an investigation after stables at Flemington were entered illegally during the Big Day Out concert on Australia Day.The intruders, who struck in the aftern...