Wonderful Tiger 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, ...

Royal Ascot-bound sprinter  Wandjina  undertakes the first leg of his trip to England on Friday night. The  Gai Waterhouse -trained colt will travel from his Randwick stable by road to Melbourne,...

Jockey James Doyle could offer no real excuses as  Brazen Beau  looked to have rounded off his career with a rather disappointing seventh in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. The final British-b...

Shamal Wind  appears to be on song for Tuesday’s Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes (1000m) at Royal Ascot according to her trainer  Robert Smerdon . Smerdon said the five-year-old seems to have suffe...

There's a mad Kiwi (or two) running around the Sth Island of NZ. The nutter has been scattering nails on a New Zealand horse racing track. Officials say it's terrorism. An anonymous phone call 90 m...

Trainer  Mick Price  is confident  Lankan Rupee  can still win Saturday week’s  $1 million Lexus Newmarket Handicap  (1200m) following the release of the weights on Tuesday, reports Racing Victori...

Danny Beau has set up a clash with sprinting giants Takeover Target and Apache Cat with his record-breaking win in the Group Three Colonel Reeves at Ascot.In recording his sixth win from six starts...