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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...

Peter Moody  is hoping the addition of blinkers will spark a form turnaround with classy filly  Bring Me The Maid  in Saturday’s  Schweppes Thousand Guineas . The champion Caulfield horseman is l...

Things are starting to look up again for trainer Kevin Moses who is hoping stakes winner Rhyno Chaser will spark a big week for the stable when he runs in the Group Three Spring Stakes at Newcastle...

Unlike past years, trainer Paul Perry is without runners in the two-year-old features and is relying on a couple from the older brigade to fly the flag for the stable this autumn.Sydney Cup-bound N...

Unlike past years, trainer Paul Perry is without runners in the two-year-old features and is relying on a couple from the older brigade to fly the flag for the stable this autumn.Sydney Cup-bound N...

HE MAY be worth $20 million according to trainer Gai Waterhouse, but don't bank on the regally bred Manhattan Rain winning at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age.Its report adds: Waterhouse sai...

Enigmatic sprinter Biscayne Bay will get the chance to break his run of outs in Sydney feature races when he tackles the Group Three Missile Stakes at Rosehill.The 1100 metre sprint headlines a str...