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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 battle between level stakes betting and some form of 'fancy' staking is one that rages on wherever racing and betting is discussed. Naturally enough, it's an issue that affects us all every ti...

In this article, Martin Dowling takes a look at some recent big priced winners and poses analysis questions about their form. He suggests that by examining why the longshots won we can be prepared...

The battle between level stakes betting and some form of 'fancy' staking is one that rages on wherever racing and betting is discussed. Naturally enough, it's an issue that affects us all every ti...

This month, lit our look at the writings of the late R.W ‘Georgie’ Wood, we examine his thoughts on staking and selection. Wood was a great believer in ‘perming’ and linking multiple selections in...

The battle between level stakes betting and some form of 'fancy' staking is one that rages on wherever racing and betting is discussed. Naturally enough, it's an issue that affects us all every ti...

The ruination of most punters when applying a staking plan, usually revolves around an incorrect mixture of expectation and realism. The expectation is that they will pick winners on a fairly reg...