Approach 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...

Essington's new Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds will take a wait-and-see approach before deciding the talented sprinter's immediate future.Essington and jockey Chris Munce will be reunited when the...

Trainer Gillian Heinrich will take a "look and see" approach with stablemates Military Grace and Pensive Dream when the pair clash in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Military Grace sta...

Caulfield trainer Brendan McCarthy has used his hands to mould Group One performer Chasm into a winner for the first time in more than 2-1/2 years.Formerly trained by Heath Conners, Chasm was havin...

Over the last couple of issues we've discussed aspects of staking in regard to the 6-Point Divisor Plan. Last month's article gave examples of how this approach can be effectively used with sensib...

Over the last couple of issues we've discussed aspects of staking in regard to the 6-Point Divisor Plan. Last month's article gave examples of how this approach can be effectively used with sensib...

This is the second part of a major article by American expert David E. Schwartz. Last issue he outlined various key strategies and in this article he sums up his approach. You can visit his websit...