Entrusting 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...

The Wong family won't know which way to look at the finish of the Victoria Racing Club Trophy (2,200m) at Happy Valley tonight as father and son could be fighting out the finish but top weight  En...

John Singleton has paid $3.85 million for champion filly Samantha Miss at the William Inglis Easter Broodmare sale in Sydney, the second highest price for a thoroughbred at public auction in the so...

Father and son jockeys Glyn and Chad Schofield weren't content with just making some racing history by riding on the same card, they went right through with the job by getting a winner each and ri...

While the Big 6 is an attractive bet for small punters (BIG rewards for LITTLE outlay), the reality is that it’s a real tough cookie! As Barry Meadow, the authoritative US expert says: “Multiple ...

While the Big 6 is an attractive bet for small punters (BIG rewards for LITTLE outlay), the reality is that it’s a real tough cookie! As Barry Meadow, the authoritative US expert says: “Multiple ...

While the Big 6 is an attractive bet for small punters (BIG rewards for LITTLE outlay), the reality is that it’s a real tough cookie! As Barry Meadow, the authoritative US expert says: “Multiple ...