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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...

Sweet Idea will get the opportunity to avenge her narrow defeat in the Magic Millions carnival as a two-year-old in the $1 million Guineas in three weeks after a strong win first-up at Wyong on T...

Last issue, I wrote about the idea of 'converging factors' in planning your betting. In this second article, I am taking the idea a stage further, stressing again the importance of dealing in grou...

Last issue, I wrote about the idea of 'converging factors' in planning your betting. In this second article, I am taking the idea a stage further, stressing again the importance of dealing in grou...

Last issue, I wrote about the idea of 'converging factors' in planning your betting. In this second article, I am taking the idea a stage further, stressing again the importance of dealing in grou...

Where Does The Nonsense End?Dariana was one thing, but Firebolt was quite another.True, Dariana caused her own problems last weekend and although it was a rotten break for supporters, she repaid th...

Sensible...Racing Victoria has accepted the decision of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board and will not appeal the verdict handed down in the Danny Nikolic case. RVL general manager of integ...