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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...

Toowoomba trainer Wayne Nugent and Japanese rider Kenji Yoshida collected the biggest payday of their careers when Friendly Embrace scored an upset win in the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doo...

There was mixed news for the Golden Slipper candidates in the two qualifying races at Randwick on Saturday with Headway earning a start via the Sweet Embrace Stakes for fillies and Manhattan Rain t...

There was mixed news for the Golden Slipper candidates in the two qualifying races at Randwick on Saturday with Headway earning a start via the Sweet Embrace Stakes for fillies and Manhattan Rain t...

áLast night as the witching hour stole upon me - its approach masked by the sound of raindrops flung from the clouds in wretched pacts of ankle-deep treachery (a month's worth drenched Melbourne in...

Father and son trainers Pat and Wayne Webster will gamble on the raw ability of Bethlehem in Saturday's Group Three Sweet Embrace Stakes.The filly was an eye-catching fourth over 1100 metres on deb...

Golden Slipper second favourite Karuta Queen will be the star attraction at Canberra on Sunday with Neville Layt deciding on a Black Opal start for the unbeaten filly."She might even pull a few mor...