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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, ...

Victorian fillies  Silent Sedition  and  Abbey Marie  have moved into joint favouritism for the Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday, after favourable draws, reports raci...

Lightweight jockey Grant Buckley is hoping to make the most of the opportunity provided to him by leading trainer David Hayes on Red Element in Saturday's Group One The Galaxy at Randwick.Buckley, ...

Trainer Con Karakatsanis no longer has dual Stradbroke Handicap winner Black Piranha in his care but in the past week has produced two promising youngsters with hopes of filling that void.On the ba...

FLEMINGTON Acceptances on Saturday 12th December, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.50 WESTERN ...

FLEMINGTON Acceptances on Saturday 11th December, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 12m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.45 WESTERN HEALTH...

Stakeswinning gelding Playwright gets his chance to break a losing run stretching back nearly two years with his first test at 2000 metres at Flemington on Saturday.Trainer Steve Richards has alway...