Fundamental Nature Horse

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...

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...

Sometimes the ordinary punter is mystified by things that really should be second nature. One of those is the matter of weights in racing. Weight for age is only a name. Don't be frightened by it...

I don’t think any other questions that I’ve been asked about racing come remotely close, in total, to the number I have been asked about systems. Racing systems represent a way of life for many p...

Last month, we only managed to get halfway in this discussion. Incidentally, I wonder if you noticed that in the November issue of PPM, both Brian and I made six final selections for the Melbour...

There are many rules to becoming a successful punter. Most punters tend to ignore many of them, and I say this after years and years of being in “the game” and having talked with hundreds of my fe...

Most professional punters, whether in Australia or overseas, are very likely to emphasise the need to “be different” in your betting approach. “Follow the crowd and you’ll lose just like they do,...

Most professional punters, whether in Australia or overseas, are very likely to emphasise the need to “be different” in your betting approach. “Follow the crowd and you’ll lose just like they do,...