Mapping Horse

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...

Betfair punters are going to cop the fallout from the recent High Court decision upholding Racing NSW's turnover tax. Betfair says: 'Due to the additional cost to Betfair associated with this decis...

Of Course They Can! Jockeys and Strikes.Jockeys are in essence ruled by racing clubs and their appointed stewards. These people can take away their livelihood. Sometimes it's deserved but usually i...

Racing Queensland has responded to its State Government's decision not to follow Victoria and NSW in introducing a Minimum Bet Law. It comes after Queensland's Racing Minister Grace Grace declare...

Sometime you wonder why something so obvious takes so long to implement but Racing Victoria has decided to finally move into the 21st century by bringing forward acceptances deadlines to Wednesday ...

A scheme to help fund jockeys' expensive insurance premiums has been backed by racing's governing body, with their union labelling it "a monumental day for racing".The Australian Racing Board (ARB)...

A proposal to limit protest hearings solely to jockeys gained no support at the national steward’s conference, reports Racing Network. Racing Victoria chairman of stewards Terry Bailey, who ran t...