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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...

Emerging stayer Voice Coach will face his first serious test at Rosehill on Saturday when he steps up to stakes company in the Listed Premier's Cup.The staying find of the Sydney winter, the Englis...

Emerging stayer Voice Coach will face his first serious test at Rosehill on Saturday when he steps up to stakes company in the Listed Premier's Cup.The staying find of the Sydney winter, the Englis...

As the racing world deals with the mind numbing issue of padded whips I really wonder about priorities. Yes, some horses need persuading with a whip but overall the form will work itself out and th...

As the racing world deals with the mind numbing issue of padded whips I really wonder about priorities. Yes, some horses need persuading with a whip but overall the form will work itself out and th...

Let's get one thing clear from the outset: You can be the most psychologically stable gambler who ever lived, but if you can't handicap and don't know how to manage your money, you're not going to...

I started off putting this article together as a sort of homage to the British form analyst and author Nick Mordin, but as I progressed through my research I realised that for a broader picture, a...