Margin Of Error 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...

As I write this, so far this calendar year there have been 128 races of the types that I like to recommend and prefer to bet on. I'm talking about the Group races (1, 2 and 3), the Special Conditi...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

More than six months have passed since PPM printed an interview with the legendary US handicapper Mark Cramer. His earlier books are a little hard to find, but his most recent work, Value Handic...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

Luck. It's the second most famous four letter word in the world. Or is it the third, behind love and that other one. Whatever ... luck means everything to punters. Without luck we are usually los...