Aces Are Good 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...

The great 'corruption in racing' probe continues...and now it's alleged that top jockey Mark Zahra is embroiled in the Smoking Aces race-fixing scandal. The Age says it can also reveal that the Aus...

Horses for courses. We've all heard the phrase, but have you ever thought about applying it to finding winners at the greyhound track? This information is often overlooked. Does the greyhound you...

Horses for courses. We've all heard the phrase, but have you ever thought about applying it to finding winners at the greyhound track? This information is often overlooked. Does the greyhound you...

When we look at form, what are we really looking for? Confirmation of something we already have in mind? Are we looking for similar confirmation for what the tipsters have chosen, or what the book...

Two horses won at 12/1 and 50/1 in the same Sydney spring. Neither was a fluke, and neither was a secret. The reasons were sitting in the form guide the whole time, in plain sight, for anyone who s...

The Peter Moody-trained Pass Me By gets the chance to revive his racing career after losing form on the flat when he makes his jumps debut at Sandown on Wednesday.Stable manager Jeff O'Connor expla...