Dirty Work Horse

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...

Steele Ryan hopes to get a guide as to whether the right decision was made not to quit training six months ago when his first metropolitan starters of the year are unveiled at Eagle Farm on Wednesd...

Pre-post favourites Manighar and Shez Sinsational are obvious threats to Scenic Shot collecting a third Doomben Cup, the veteran galloper's jockey Shane Scriven says.Scriven, who credits the $3.2 m...

One hails from a farming family in the Czech Republic, the other is an American with a background in medical research.This unlikely training partnership of Oldrich Jiricka and Lisa Cohen will be ou...

For over a decade, I’ve sold and counselled in the use of record-keeping software for handicappers. Keeping and analysing betting records is both the thing that handicappers least like to do – m...

In the July issue of  PPM the previously “mysterious” formula betting was de-mystified quite substantially with a series of examples which I am positive will have helped all readers in their under...

In the July issue of  PPM the previously “mysterious” formula betting was de-mystified quite substantially with a series of examples which I am positive will have helped all readers in their under...