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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 ...
Michelle Payne has completed her gruelling concussion recovery test and says she is now mentally exhausted. "I think I went really well and the lady conducting the test said I went well, but I was ...
Friday is D-Day for Michelle Payne as she tries to resurrect her riding career, reports TVN. It says Michelle hasn't ridden since fracturing two vertebrae in her back and suffering severe concussio...
A week of starvation brought its just rewards for jockey Shayne Cahill when local stayer Rialya fought back to deny Drunken Sailor victory in Monday's Group Two Adelaide Cup at Morphettville.If 37-...
It is always great to see someone outside the usual suspects like Freedman, Waterhouse, Hayes, Snowden, Cummings and the new boys on the block in Moody and Price win a top race. This year the Great...
Melbourne trainer Michael Moroney was rewarded for years of patience when veteran stayer Tinseltown won the $150,000 Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Moroney has always believed Tinseltown ...
John Wheeler says he has a leaning to Petushki over Banner Strand as he shoots for his fifth Grand Annual Steeplechase victory at Warrnambool.Petushki, runner-up to Riva San in the 2008 Group One Q...
Chris Waller's success with imported stayers could result in its biggest pay day in Saturday's Sydney Cup.Hawk Island's effort under 61 kilograms to win the JRA Plate in heavy conditions on Saturda...
Maher, 27, builds formidable big-race winning record WARRNAMBOOL trainer Ciaron Maher is building a remarkable record for winning feature races at his first attempt and so goes into tomorrow's Gran...
Cox Plate winning jockey Patrick Payne fulfilled a lifelong ambition when Awakening Dream ran away with the $250,000 Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool.The eight-year-old, by unfashionable st...