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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...

Weary, wounded and badly beaten, they ambled out of their stables at Sandown quarantine centre on Wednesday oblivious to the consternation surrounding them.The three horses from the most successful...

It was something that John Moore talked about with Able Friend and no doubt Sydney's leading trainer, Chris Waller is experiencing it with Winx, but the internet "ownership" of exciting racehorses...

Stathi Katsidis' death will forever remain a mystery to his fiancee Melissa Jackson.Jackson has revealed she had no reason to believe Katsidis may have turned to drugs in the week the champion ride...

Two of the great names in American and world racing are Barry Meadow and Andy Beyer. Meadow is regarded as the No. 1 guru of handicappers, and Beyer is the man who developed the successful Beye...

In this two-part article, Paul Bockman, one of Australia's leading jumps racing form analysts, discusses the key form factors he uses to beat the jumps. WHY THE JUMPS? Intelligent people often...