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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 one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

A grilling from trainer Gai Waterhouse was the catalyst to Tommy Berry producing a winning performance aboard the resuming Kontiki Park on Saturday.Berry said he had the words of Waterhouse from ea...

Chris Waller has declared it will take a very good horse to beat Metal Bender in Saturday's $2.5 million Caulfield Cup, with the joint favourite likely to start from the inside barrier.Metal Bender...

Muswellbrook trainer Jan Bowen celebrated her first stakes winner when Jest Crewsin' upstaged his more fancied rivals in the Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick.Jest Crewsin' was sent out a $21 ch...