Dangerous Secret Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

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...

Winners have the last laugh. As we have said on many occasions, they can laugh, while the losers can please themselves. The time I laugh most on the racetrack is not when I back a winner, but when...

TAB's wtrapup of Saturday's racing: RANDWICK RACE ONE Holler was a massive go in the first ($1.75) holding 75 percent of the money, however, it was Spill The Beans ($6-$4.80) that spoiled...

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...

Exclusive extracts from the US ‘Today’s Racing Digest’ Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes probably would have been great handicappers. The two most famous recluses of the twentieth century may have ...

In the third article in our series featuring the best staking and selection plans from Banker Weekly, our expert The Optimist writes this month about some of his favourite staking ideas. In next m...

How do professional punters really operate? It's a question I am often asked by punters desperate to be 'in the know' on the activities of men who actually make a living at the races. Naturally,...