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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...

Jockey Josh Parr has learned from Shannara's luckless last-start defeat and is confident the well-related mare can return to the winner's circle in Saturday's Listed Angst Stakes at Rosehill.Parr r...

Black Caviar lived up to her rating as the world's best sprinter when she gave her opposition weight and a beating in Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Under 58kg, the four-yea...

In the racing game, it is virtually accepted as fact that jockeys are the worst judges. I did find the comments of Glen Boss in the aftermath of Smart Missile's impressive Run to the Rose win, howe...

Arabian Gold  burst into contention for the Cox Plate after claiming the scalp of  Catkins  in the Golden Pendant at Rosehill Gardens. Trainer  David Vandyke  believes his grey mare is capable o...

Trainer John McNair has fired a broadside at the handicapping of Hay List in next month's Newmarket Handicap and will strongly recommend to the owners that the star sprinter not run in the Group On...