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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...

A combination of the world financial crisis and immaturity meant regally-bred filly Salutations didn't go through the sales ring as a yearling.Instead her breeder, Arrowfield Stud supremo John Mess...

A combination of the world financial crisis and immaturity meant regally-bred filly Salutations didn't go through the sales ring as a yearling.Instead her breeder, Arrowfield Stud supremo John Mess...

Nina Carberry will again bid to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National after being booked to ride 33-1 chance First Lieutenant. The 30-year-old, who will partner Irish trainer M...

MOONEE VALLEY Acceptances on Saturday 23rd October, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.35 MICROF...