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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...

International stayer Oceanographer has been backed from $4.40 into $3.80 to win  tomorrow’s  Geelong Cup. Oceanographer, a $51 chance for the Melbourne Cup, is second elect behind Grey Lion, wh...

Punters are warming to a local Melbourne Cup chance with Jameka ($8.00), the only Australian bred horse in the field, best backed with TAB today. The third elect has had 18% of the money today, w...

Although many punters are reticent to dabble in multiple bets in the one race, there is a case to be made out for such an approach being a winner. Like everything else in racing, it needs to be ...

Although many punters are reticent to dabble in multiple bets in the one race, there is a case to be made out for such an approach being a winner. Like everything else in racing, it needs to be ...

Rick Hore-Lacy may have come up with the surprise packet for the Caulfield Guineas. His gritty grey Chase The Rainbow has loomed into contention with a fine win on the Geelong synthetic track on Su...

Trainer Danny O'Brien believes the week's delay in the running of the $1 million Australian Cup at Flemington will be to the benefit of Barbaricus.The grey was to back up a week after his third-up ...