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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 fallout continues from the Damien Oliver betting scandal allegations...Now the champ jockey has been sacked from plum rides in the spring. He has lost the ride on My Quest For Peace in the Caul...
DEMAND for Damien Oliver in big races continues with the Hall of Fame jockey today booked for Ferlax in Saturday’s Toorak Handicap. Trainer Jim Conlan engaged Oliver for Ferlax, which has been ri...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has warmed up for Saturday's Turnbull Stakes meeting with five winners at Geelong.Oliver rode the winners of the first five races and his haul included a quartet for t...
DAMIEN Oliver’s friendship of more than 15 years with former champion jockey cum trainer Johnny Murtagh helped land him the Melbourne Cup ride on Mutual Regard. Oliver, who partnered the Le...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will appeal the severity of a one-month suspension after returning a positive urine sample to the prohibited substance ephedrine when tested on Derby Day at Flemington...
THE titanic struggle for the Melbourne jockeys' premiership continued yesterday at Betfair Park, with Craig Williams taking the lead from rival Damien Oliver with just two city meetings to go befor...
Craig Williams will take over from Damien Oliver on favorite Vigor in the Caulfield Cup. Trainer Danny O'Brien says: ' The 51kgs was always going to be a bridge too far for Damien Oliver and in loo...
A COURT hearing relating to a criminal investigation linked to dual Melbourne Cup winner Damien Oliver was held yesterday - but details cannot be revealed because of a suppression order, reports Th...
Damien Oliver has been charged with illegal betting, plunging the illustrious rider's future into doubt, reports the melbourne Herald Sum. It says: 'Oliver, 40, faces a suspension of between eight ...
Jockey Glen Colless' long-awaited comeback from a serious foot injury has been overshadowed by his axing in favour of Damien Oliver for Perth stayer Scenic Shot in the Hollindale Stakes.Colless has...