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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...

The Gai Waterhouse camp says Theseo is in mint condition for Saturday's Group One Ranvet Stakes despite a boil on his back which caused some concern when recently spotted by his owners.Theseo is th...

The lack of a do-or-die front runner in the BMW means tactics and a smart ride are all important and trainer Leon Macdonald reckons he holds the trump hand.The Macdonald-trained Southern Speed will...

Roman Koz provided us with a fascinating look at stats about favourites on pages 18-19 in the November PPM. It really is a good way to start thinking about a structured manner of attacking your be...

  Remembering all that is spoken and written about betting is, for many punters, too much of a task. It can be confusing and a little frustrating to have to cope with such a massive input of 'dat...

We often hear of foolproof methods of winning money at the races. You know the type of thing: I've got a system, guaranteed to make you a winner, anywhere, anytime! Unlimited profits are usually...