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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...

New Zealand trainer Jeff Lynds is glowing in his praise of Wall Street who takes on the might of the Bart Cummings-trained So You Think in Saturday's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.The Palmerston North...

Based on the TAB Fixed Odds, using Thursday nights prices, there are 15 horses priced at 4/1 ($5.00) or less set to race at Randwick and quite a few of them present punters with problems. In Race 1...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is considering a change of riding tactics for Hot Snitzel in the erratic youngster's bid to deny the Darley juggernaut victory in the Group Two Sires' Produce Stakes at Eagle Fa...

Mark Kavanagh's spring of despair turned full circle when Shocking gave the trainer his first Melbourne Cup, defying a determined challenge from the Europeans and leaving Bart Cummings out in the c...

A jockey who suffered the most-crushing loss of his career in the same race a year ago, a trainer with whom he had won many major races in years past, and a horse who had been long forgotten since ...

In seven starts for trainer Chris Waller, former French stayer Permit has gone from being a restricted class galloper to Sydney Cup favourite.After he won at his second start for Waller in December...