Apostle 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...

TAB Sportsbet is offering a 'special' market on the July Cup from Newmarket (UK) which jumps Saturday morning at 12.10am AEST. Punters can take $2.10 about either of the Aussie gallopers (Scenic Bl...

TAB Sportsbet has posted Kings Stand winner Scenic Blast as a $2.50 fav for the upcoming July Cup (6f) at Newmarket on July 11. Paco Boy, winner of the Queen Anne Stakes, is on the next line at $6 ...

Racing is awash with theories, systems, beliefs, slogans ... all claiming to know how to unlock the door that leads straight to the winner or provide cast-iron evidence for why that standout favou...