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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...

Black Caviar's half-brother All Too Hard can put himself into Blue Diamond contention if he can win his race debut at Flemington.The Casino Prince colt is one of six Talindert Stakes runners still ...

It's all done with mirrors...Lloyd Williams is producing his annual juggling act just to keep us all in a knot over which horse is going where...He's now saying that his top stayer C'est La Guerre ...

Stathi Katsidis' grieving fiancee Melissa Jackson has revealed how her act of kindness may have contributed to the champion Queensland jockey's death.Jackson is still in shock after finding Katsidi...

Emerging sprint star Rain Affair added another string to his bow when he stretched out to 1400 metres for the first time with the same winning result in the Apollo Stakes.The $1.50 favourite had th...

Top trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith and owner-breeder Des Pope are set to combine and try for a second Sir John Monash Stakes victory with in-form sprinter Gran Sasso who is closely related to their 2...

Top trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith and owner-breeder Des Pope are set to combine and try for a second Sir John Monash Stakes victory with in-form sprinter Gran Sasso who is closely related to their 2...