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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...

There's a lot of nonsense flying around after that controversial court win for Racing NSW. Much of it is coming from the victors. Some is coming from Victoria where the usually sensible trainer Pet...

We have been involved in an enormous study of favourites, preparing for a rather large and important article in the 2000 PPM Annual. We, being Steve and Scan McAllister and Yours Truly, took all ...

A SMALL ANALYSIS OF A BIG TOPICWell the basic analysis didn't disgrace itself.The barriers wrecked a potentially superb field.I suggested that you needed to find the best (or best treated) amongst ...

Astute trainer Barbara Joseph has prepared some smart mares during her time and she is hoping she has found another one in the up-and-coming Logan's Choice.Joseph, who has put the polish on the lik...

Chris Waller paid tribute to Nash Rawiller's "freakish ride" to get Our Cannavaro home at Randwick on Wednesday, just a day after the trainer gave the leading rider a "rev-up" at the Rosehill barri...

Chris Waller paid tribute to Nash Rawiller's "freakish ride" to get Our Cannavaro home at Randwick on Wednesday, just a day after the trainer gave the leading rider a "rev-up" at the Rosehill barri...