Do I Have To 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...

DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO?As the snippet says, it's so hard NOT to bet on a big race.This weekend in Brisbane there's a humdinger, but apart from the favourite it's wide open.The strong likelihood is t...

JUST A THOUGHTWhat I know, what you know, and what they know.So say there's a market up.Your strong fancy is Number One.It's mine too.We've both done the form.The prepost newspaper market offers ti...

March 19My usual Wednesday night activity is to go to www.australianracingboard.com and copy all the weights, paste them into a word document and delete the races that do not satisfy my initial cri...

March 19My usual Wednesday night activity is to go to www.australianracingboard.com and copy all the weights, paste them into a word document and delete the races that do not satisfy my initial cri...

  Most punters know that it's silly to bet on every race and yet they continue to do it, week in and year out. Unless you're a cool professional punter, or a very keen amateur, you like to go ...

This is the final part of our series featuring the views of UK professional punter Alan Potts, one of the most highly-regarded pro’s in world racing. This article takes the form of a question and ...