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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...

Trainer Mike Moroney is looking ahead to the Brisbane carnival with lightly-raced three-year-old Noble Park who has emerged as a Queensland Derby candidate after scoring at Sandown.The Pins gelding...

Local trainer Jason Warren is eyeing off the Mornington Cup with his rejuvenated galloper The Yartz following his emphatic win there in the $100,000 RM Ansett Stakes.Given a "perfect" ride by accom...

Frankel completed his preparation for the Lockinge Stakes with a workout on grass at Newmarket that left trainer Sir Henry Cecil delighted with his unbeaten champion.Cecil resisted the temptation t...

International superstar sprinter  Lankan Rupee  will continue his build up towards the Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) on February 21  with a barrier trial at Cranbourne on Monday , reports racing...

  The John Size-trained Classic Jewellery should get the race set-up that suits him best and break into Class Two as a winner in tonight's Choi Ying Handicap (1,650m) at Sha Tin. Most of the run...

Firstly, I want to thank those many readers who have contacted me following my Rapide Ratings article in the November 2004 PPM. It’s pleasing to know that greyhound fans among us were quick to pu...