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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 boar...
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 Practi...
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"...
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....
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. Wri...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writin...
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 ...
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...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finishe...
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 S...
A section of electricity cable has been removed from the paddock area at Newbury following the deaths of two horses at the course on Saturday.Fenix...
Oh Josh! Oh Claudia! Someone pulled the chain on jockey Josh Adams and stable girl Claudia Miller while they were apparently enjoying each other's ...
Mark Kavanagh says his horses are sick of chasing So You Think home but he can't see it changing when Shocking clashes with the superstar in Saturd...
Controversial owner John Yuen Se-kit has provided the first shock of the new racing season, admitting yesterday that his champion Good Ba Ba would ...
Troubled apprentice Josh Adams has escaped charges over an incident at a city nightclub but has been warned the renewal of his jockey's licence is ...
FROM European tour operator to leading Brisbane trainer. It has been some turnaround for Robert Heathcote. From driving coaches to conditioning tho...
Glen Boss, back on top in Melbourne, attributes much of his success to his association with trainers Mick Kent stable and David Hayes. Bossy says: ...
Solzhenitsyn cemented Robert Heathcote's best day at the races with victory in Saturday's $400,000 Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m).The former Kiwi ...
The Epsom Handicap meeting is expected to get the green light to go ahead at Randwick when the board of the Australian Turf Club meets on Monday.Ra...
A minor setback will delay the return of Grp 1 winning filly Nechita. She's been ruled out of the major Victorian sprint races at the Melbourne aut...
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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 ...
A section of electricity cable has been removed from the paddock area at Newbury following the deaths of two horses at the course on Saturday.Fenix Two and Marching Song were about to be mounted by...
Oh Josh! Oh Claudia! Someone pulled the chain on jockey Josh Adams and stable girl Claudia Miller while they were apparently enjoying each other's company in a toilet cubicle of a Sydney mid-city ...
Mark Kavanagh says his horses are sick of chasing So You Think home but he can't see it changing when Shocking clashes with the superstar in Saturday's Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington.So You Think i...
Controversial owner John Yuen Se-kit has provided the first shock of the new racing season, admitting yesterday that his champion Good Ba Ba would be removed from the stables of trainer Andreas Sch...
Troubled apprentice Josh Adams has escaped charges over an incident at a city nightclub but has been warned the renewal of his jockey's licence is in jeopardy.Adams, who is currently serving a seve...
FROM European tour operator to leading Brisbane trainer. It has been some turnaround for Robert Heathcote. From driving coaches to conditioning thoroughbreds, such as today's Ipswich Cup contender ...
Glen Boss, back on top in Melbourne, attributes much of his success to his association with trainers Mick Kent stable and David Hayes. Bossy says: 'Both stables have been good to me but it's the ol...
Solzhenitsyn cemented Robert Heathcote's best day at the races with victory in Saturday's $400,000 Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m).The former Kiwi provided Queensland's premier trainer with his sec...
The Epsom Handicap meeting is expected to get the green light to go ahead at Randwick when the board of the Australian Turf Club meets on Monday.Randwick was shut down at the end of last month when...
A minor setback will delay the return of Grp 1 winning filly Nechita. She's been ruled out of the major Victorian sprint races at the Melbourne autumn carnival. Trainer John Thompson says the filly...
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