A Little Bit Dusty Horse

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...

Improving three-year-old Dusty Star has boosted his Australian Guineas claims with an all-the-way win in the Group Two D'Urban Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Peter Morgan was in awe of the performance...

Steven Arnold is looking forward to letting Star Witness off the leash in the Listed Manfred Stakes at Caulfield.Arnold said he had ridden Star Witness about six times in trackwork and jumpouts but...

Trainer Jason Warren has put a temporary hold on the pursuit of a stakes race success with Freereturn, electing to miss the Listed Straight Six at Flemington.Next Saturday's 1200-metre feature woul...

Mick Price will rely on Testa My Patience in the Pink Ribbon Cup at Caulfield while stablemate Sheila's Star will run in the City Of Adelaide Handicap at Morphettville.Price accepted with both hors...