Last Cent 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...

Previously we looked at the different levels of favouritism and how they performed. This month we’ll look at TAB or saddlecloth numbers to see if we can fathom their affiliation with Lady Luck by ...

In this column we take numbers and analyse the ways we can manipulate them to help us find winners and hopefully increase our bank balance. Which are the numbers that are most likely to be meaning...

Using statistical trends to make profits from betting is my chosen path. The stats behind my bets are a great mental support to me during losing spells. My faith in their long-term profitability c...

One of the perennial debates in racing is over the effects of the barrier draw on a horse’s chances in a race. In August 2003, I joined in a discussion on the web-based racing forum, AusRace, reg...

Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...

Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...