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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...

MORNINGTON 13/023 Kinesthetic $4 - $3.60 ($2000 & $1000 @ $4)6 Crack A Roadie ($3000 & $2000 @ $1.70), Lannister $51 - $357 Launay ($500 @ $7), Eight Bills $7.50 - $6 ($400 e/w @ $7.50/$2.51), Last...

In-form apprentice Dean Holland will be looking to keep his hot streak going at the Caulfield Boxing Day meeting on Friday where he has six rides.The pint-sized Holland, who weighs 46kg, has ridden...

I'll Have Another looked like just another horse at the Kentucky Derby.Until the final furlong (200m), that is.That's when the chestnut colt - sold for a paltry $US11,000 ($A10,750) and ridden by a...

Stewards must be getting concerned over the Gai Waterhouse stable's battle to patch up Glencadam Gold for the Melbourne Cup. They don't want any final acceptor to be suddenly scratched due to injur...

Mark Kavanagh says his star galloper Whobegotyou could not be in better shape heading to the Doomben 10,000.The four-year-old winner of seven races and $2.2 million in stakes, spearheads a three-ho...

Mark Kavanagh says his star galloper Whobegotyou could not be in better shape heading to the Doomben 10,000.The four-year-old winner of seven races and $2.2 million in stakes, spearheads a three-ho...