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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 ...
Leading trainer Lee Freedman will front the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board over a positive swab returned by one of his horses.A sample taken from Discorsi before he ran second in a barrier t...
TattsBet price changes on Friday for racing on Saturday
Every punter has torn up a ticket blaming a wide barrier. But does the draw really decide races the way we think it does? Statsman digs into the numbers — and the answer might just change how you r...
Trainers and jockeys must consider the welfare of their horses to ensure the viability of jumps racing in Victoria, Racing Minister Rob Hulls says.The decision to continue the sport was announced b...
Ever backed a horse that won going away, only to watch it plod home an unplaced favourite next start? That's not bad luck — it's early pace. It's the hidden factor behind more form reversals than m...
Nominations for the 2015 Caulfield Cup, released on August 4: http://cdn.racing.com/~/media/racing/files/2015-caulfield-cup-nominations.pdf?la=en
There was a Hendra virus scare at Randwick racecourse on Thursday when a horse showed possible symptoms of the deadly infection.Tests have since cleared the horse of having the virus, which has res...
Jumps racing in Victoria has been marred by the first death of a horse since the controversial sport resumed in May.Whatsourgo suffered an injury when he fell at the last hurdle during the Ted Best...
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