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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...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

Banner colts Smart Missile and Helmet remain in the running to emulate So You Think in this year's $3 million Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley. The star three-year-olds are among the 59 hor...

Helmet's hopes of a farewell Australian win in Saturday's Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington received a boost at this morning's allocation of barriers for the $750,000 event.The Peter Snowden...

The question most fellow punters ask me is to explain my approach to form and betting. Quite naturally, they want to know what the secret is to making a profit at the races. Who doesn't? By th...