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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 Turnbull Stakes is often regarded as the key lead-up to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups plus the Cox Plate and a quality list of nominations has been entered for the $500,000 Group 1 race o...
TONY McEvoy will kick-start talented filly Piacenza’s Blue Diamond campaign in Adelaide. McEvoy entered Piacenza for a Blue Diamond Preview (1000 m) at Caulfield on Saturday, but has decided to r...
Tony McEvoy won two juvenile stakes in Melbourne over the spring carnival and he was pleased to report on Friday morning that the pair of Aspect and Azazel are on track to contest the state'...
As the Black Caviar steam trains powers ahead to William Reid Stakes Night at the Valley on Friday 22 March, her three-quarter brother in-blood, Iconic, is flying under the radar, reports Racing Vi...
It's been a disappointing couple of weeks for Guy Walter with the trainer losing his leading Classic contenders Rocha and Orca to injury and he is pinning his hopes on Rich Endowment taking a big s...
Veteran gelding Canary Islands' first win for three years was cause for celebration in more ways than one.They eight-year-old's victory in Wednesday's Champagne Bar Handicap (1550m) at Randwick bro...
Leading trainer Tony Cruz continues his charge for the trainers' championship at Sha Tin today and handy speedster Space Race should do his part by taking the Riding For The Disabled Association Cu...
TONY McEvoy will launch the Golden Slipper bid for Risen From Doubt in the Silver Slipper Stakes. McEvoy bypassed the Blue Diamond with his emphatic Maribyrnong Trial Stakes winner to focus solel...
Nostradamus lived up to its backing to win the opening race at Flemington. Backed as if unbeatable, the two-year-old firmed from $2.30 into $1.55 in landing some significant bets. One of th...
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