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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...
JUST A THOUGHTWhat I know, what you know, and what they know.So say there's a market up.Your strong fancy is Number One.It's mine too.We've both do...
A Brief Thought.I've been doing the form for the weekend. So what's new, you ask.Well, it's the number of races I was able to strike a pen through ...
Another Thought of the DayI don't know about you, but I'm a bit prone to waking up during the night and thinking about some assault or other that I...
What on earth were the connections of Yosei thinking when apparently contemplating sacking Michelle Payne from Yosei after the filly's failure in t...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT? YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT!"Hi T.O. Your blog readers may be interested in this. I spent a bit of time on it this morning and frankl...
IT AIN'T ALL THAT EASY, BROTHER!I spent several hours on the form analysing that one factor we spoke about late last week. How long do you spend al...
English trainer Ed Dunlop is already planning another Melbourne Cup bid with his courageous runner-up Red Cadeaux. Dunlop was shattered after Red C...
Over-rated Star Witness won't be a starter in the Australian Guineas. Instead, he'll clash with unbeaten sprint star Black Caviar in the $1 million...
Find all the excuses you like - but boom galloper All Too Hard was disappointing at Rosehill on Saturday. His jockey Dwayne Dunn was big enough to ...
AFTER THE BALLWell we've had it. Been and gone. And nobody could begrudge the winner his prize, could they? Did it the hard way.I thought there cou...
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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 ...
JUST A THOUGHTWhat I know, what you know, and what they know.So say there's a market up.Your strong fancy is Number One.It's mine too.We've both done the form.The prepost newspaper market offers ti...
A Brief Thought.I've been doing the form for the weekend. So what's new, you ask.Well, it's the number of races I was able to strike a pen through within ten to fifteen seconds.And it's Villiers Da...
Another Thought of the DayI don't know about you, but I'm a bit prone to waking up during the night and thinking about some assault or other that I'm planning on the enemy.Last night, I wondered ab...
What on earth were the connections of Yosei thinking when apparently contemplating sacking Michelle Payne from Yosei after the filly's failure in the Flight Stakes at Randwick? There was nothing wr...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT? YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT!"Hi T.O. Your blog readers may be interested in this. I spent a bit of time on it this morning and frankly I'm staggered by it.OK, in Brisbane on Saturday:...
IT AIN'T ALL THAT EASY, BROTHER!I spent several hours on the form analysing that one factor we spoke about late last week. How long do you spend altogether?Anyway, I finally eliminated Eagle Farm c...
English trainer Ed Dunlop is already planning another Melbourne Cup bid with his courageous runner-up Red Cadeaux. Dunlop was shattered after Red Cadeaux was edged out in a photo by French stayer D...
Over-rated Star Witness won't be a starter in the Australian Guineas. Instead, he'll clash with unbeaten sprint star Black Caviar in the $1 million Newmarket Handicap 1200m at Flemington. Trainer D...
Find all the excuses you like - but boom galloper All Too Hard was disappointing at Rosehill on Saturday. His jockey Dwayne Dunn was big enough to admit it. He says he was entitled to run home bett...
AFTER THE BALLWell we've had it. Been and gone. And nobody could begrudge the winner his prize, could they? Did it the hard way.I thought there could be a happy ending for me at the 250 as my earli...