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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 ...
Unlike past years, trainer Paul Perry is without runners in the two-year-old features and is relying on a couple from the older brigade to fly the flag for the stable this autumn.Sydney Cup-bound N...
Gai Waterhouse believes Light Brigade has come of age at the right time as the trainer looks to win her second Rosehill Guineas on Saturday."He's our best chance on the day," Waterhouse said."He is...
Expensive colt Light Brigade has maintained an unbeaten start to his career and jockey Rod Quinn has taken riding honours with a winning treble at Warwick Farm.A $1.4 million yearling, the Gai Wate...
Jim Cassidy and Nash Rawiller emerged as the most successful Group One riders of the Sydney autumn carnival with Gai Waterhouse leading the trainers' ranks.All three claimed three Group One races e...
A sparkling track gallop from Group One The Galaxy winner Atomic Force has boosted trainer Darren Smith's confidence the five-year-old can continue his great form in Queensland during the winter ca...
Alan Bailey will head to Doomben more in hope than with any great expectations for his two runners Fantastic Force and Brave The Way.Fantastic Force, a $600,000 buy at the New Zealand Premier sales...
Her legendary father TJ Smith won a record nine AJC Australian Derbys and trainer Gai Waterhouse would dearly love to add her name to the winners' list on Saturday.She came agonisingly close in 200...
Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...