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Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...
Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...
Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...
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 ...
The UK Racing Post says the owners of last year's Melbourne Cup winner Americain, Kevin and Colleen Bamford and Gerry Ryan, have bought a 50 per cent share in the Flemington-bound Jukebox Jury. The...
Melbourne Cup casualty Jukebox Jury's leg injury will be assessed next week by one of Australia's leading equine vets.Jukebox Jury, the highest rated stayer among a record number of internationals ...
Melbourne Cup casualty Jukebox Jury is on track to make a full recovery from a leg fracture and leave Australia as early as the end of next month.The highly-rated international stayer had scans lat...
The Melbourne Cup favourite Americain is in "perfect" order for a repeat performance of his 2010 victory and his owner is looking forward to landing the big race trifecta.The Australian-owned, Fren...
Remember Jukebox Jury? That's right - the much-hyped UK stayer who was going to grab the Melbourne Cup. He's been battling serious injury and the latest news is that he's making a good recovery fr...
UK trainer Mark 'Grouch' Johnston is beefing up his Aussie spring raid. It looks like his German St Leger winner Fox Hunt will join stablemate Jukebox Jury in a Melbourne Cup bid. Latest reports sa...
Oh dear! Americain's much-hyped Melbourne Cup campaign has got away to an ordinary start in France. Last year's Cup winner could finish only 10th to the UK stayer Jukebox Jury in the Darley Prix Ke...
There is a sense of deja vu about the Melbourne Cup with European bookmakers agreeing with their southern hemisphere counterparts that the trophy will once again be heading to France.Last year's wi...
She feeds him, grooms him, talks to him in two languages and is totally devoted to him.In return, he follows her around like a faithful dog and plays like a big puppy - even though he is a 530kg th...
ALAIN De Royer Dupre's assistant trainer Stephanie Nigge sounded an ominous warning to the connections of fellow international raiders and the handful of locals still in the hunt for the Melbourne ...