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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 ...
Jockey Ric McMahon's career received a timely boost when he landed his first metropolitan winner at Eagle Farm since making his comeback last month from a drug-related suspension.McMahon was suspen...
For troubled apprentice Josh Adams, a comeback victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday was every bit as sweet as riding his first winner.The 19-year-old was outed for seven months earlier this year af...
Apprentice Mitchell Beadman's recent move to trainer John O'Shea's camp has paid quick dividends with the youngster landing a winning double at Canterbury.The 18-year-old transferred from John Hawk...
He's back aboard....Corey Brown will be back on the highly-regarded Ambers Waltzin the $2 million Magic Millions at the Gold Coast on Saturday week. He rode the Danehill Dancer filly to her debut w...
Jim Cassidy is one of racing's personalities.Ever ready with a quip or a quote, he has ridden a roller-coaster of controversy and injury and bounced back from it all.But over the past five months, ...
Josh Adams finished on the wrong end of a rare apprentices' result in last year's Villiers Stakes and believes statistics give his mount Miss Keepsake a realistic shot at Saturday's Group Two race....
Boom filly Atlantic Jewel is on the mend...Trainer Mark Kavanagh says the unbeaten 3YO has made good progress from the 'unusua'l injury that torpedoed her Spring Racing Carnival campaign. Kav recko...
Easy does it...All Too Hard is almost back to his 'fit and ready' status and will be racing again in Sydney within a month. That's the word from co-trainer Wayne Hawkes. He says: 'He's bucking his ...
Quickly bouncing back from his bust-up with David Hayes, top jockey Craig Williams has landed the ride on the Gai Waterhouse-trained Manhattan Rain in Sat week's Grp 1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Th...