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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...

A new found maturity has Belle Soleil on target for Magic Millions riches on the Gold Coast following a dominant victory in the Wyong leadup.With trainer Gary Portelli on holiday in Queensland, blo...

Trainer Gary Portelli has switched his Group One attention to the autumn and the AJC Australian Oaks with Rose Of Peace after losing Gold Trail for the summer to injury.The winner of the Railway St...

Magic Millions riches await Koblenz if she can overcome a wide barrier and live up to trainer Gary Portelli's expectations at Randwick.Many of the 13 fillies in Saturday's 1000m race, ironically sp...

Gary Portelli is keeping his options open with Group One winner Gold Trail who could compete in either Queensland or Sydney later this week.The $200,000 Magic Millions Sprint (1000m) on Saturday ha...

Gary Portelli may bypass next month's Villiers Stakes and look at a bigger prize during the autumn carnival after watching stable star Somepin Anypin race to another dominant win in the Hawkesbury ...

Clarry Conners has accepted with The Last General in Sydney on Saturday as road closures in northern NSW put his Magic Millions Guineas appearance in doubt.The Last General is not the only Sydney-b...