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How much would you need to bet on every race to make a second income from horse racing? One punter hoped to win $40,000 a year to double his income, and when his betting plan was worked through rac...

Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...

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...

Can you tell a genuinely fast run from one that just looks fast? In this one, Gordon unpacks "par times" — the smoothed average time for each track, distance and going — so you can read the clock t...

We now know why December Draw failed so badly in the Caulfield Cup - and it's all bad news. Trainer Mark Kavanagh has told stewards that DD has been diagnosed with a fracture to the lateral splint ...

The Newmarket is becoming an intriguing big-race riddle...Biggest question is whether Hay List will run. Bookies have him as an unlikely runner but he's still the Newmarket early fav at $3. Bel Sp...

The entries for the Caulfield Cup, Melbourne Cup and WS Cox Plate have been finalized and here we go again. There are 49 international entries from 30 international trainers spanning seven countrie...

Probably my most pleasurable pastime would be an afternoon at the track with fellow racing enthusiasts, exchanging views on the day’s racing and discussing the merit of one another’s selections ov...

Landing a First 4 divvie can be a marvelously rewarding experience. The payouts are big. Sometimes huge. But how can you frame your bets for a moderate amount of money and give yourself a fightin...