Willpower 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, ...

Champion hoop Jim Cassidy will chase a third Magic Millions Classic victory on Saturday while one of his younger rivals is hoping his first riding experience at the Gold Coast is a memorable one in...

Top Drop can join his Gerald Ryan-trained stablemate Amorino as a leading contender for Magic Millions riches with a solid performance in the Carrington Stakes.Amorino secured his place among the f...

Magic Millions contender Amorino will have a Sydney lead-in to the $2 million race.Trainer Gerald Ryan has selected a Rosehill 1100m scamper on Saturday in preference to a Doomben start for the unb...

Gary Portelli is one trainer who thinks there is value in taking on Black Caviar.Portelli is planning to run former NSW bush mare Platinum Skye against Black Caviar in the champion sprinter's comeb...

No-one is happier to see Jim Cassidy riding in top form than trainer Rick Worthington who will leg the champion jockey aboard Whitefriars in Friday night's Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley.The Sal...

The Golden Slipper is the second richest race on the Australian calendar surpassed only by the Melbourne Cup, but the two races are polar opposites.With $3.5 million on offer, the two-year-olds sca...