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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...

Jockey Club officials again did a poor job of concealing their mirth as turnover all but touched the rare billion dollar barrier on the mixed all-weather and turf card. The pari-mutuel handle fell ...

Grahame Begg can't fault the condition of Villiers winner Palacio De Cristal ahead of the Chipping Norton Stakes but is worried a couple of factors may play against the mare.Palacio De Cristal retu...

Ego's Dare is a horse who knows what he wants and trainer Gerald Ryan will be letting him have his way at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old is Ryan's lone representative at the meeting and run...

Trainer John Wheeler is a forgiving person and believes Juice can redeem herself with victory in the Queensland Oaks.Wheeler is tipping the New Zealand fillies will play a dominant role in the outc...

Trainer John Wheeler is a forgiving person and believes Juice can redeem herself with victory in the Queensland Oaks.Wheeler is tipping the New Zealand fillies will play a dominant role in the outc...

Trainer John Wheeler is a forgiving person and believes Juice can redeem herself with victory in the Queensland Oaks.Wheeler is tipping the New Zealand fillies will play a dominant role in the outc...