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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...

The Sportsman upset several Melbourne Cup hopefuls when he scored a shock win in the Group Two Moonee Valley Gold Cup aided by a well-judged ride by Hugh Bowman.Bowman had the Russell Cameron-train...

The Sportsman upset several Melbourne Cup hopefuls when he scored a shock win in the Group Two Moonee Valley Gold Cup aided by a well-judged ride by Hugh Bowman.Bowman had the Russell Cameron-train...

With punters facing the prospect of more and more the inevitable outcome is that they're tempted to bet on too many races and study each race with less attention than ever. It's an enormous shame ...

A new series on how to use your formguide One of the great obstacles facing each and every punter is how to find some new way of approaching an old subject. How can you get a fresh angle that m...

Ideas from the formguides ... winning ideas! That's what this series is all about. The premise is that, apart from the tips and the formlines, our formguides (a la Sportsman, Winning Post, Best B...

All involved in that never-ending war against 'the percentages' are constantly looking for the fresh angle. The angle that might turn the tide. This magazine, in fact, devotes much research time t...