May Be Bubbles 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...

The barrier draw has made the race less clearly defined than it might have been otherwise but John Size-trained  Thewizardofoz  should throw down the gauntlet to other Derby-bound four-year-olds b...

Kris Lees will carry the flag for Newcastle at Australia’s richest race meeting at Royal Randwick on Saturday. It is The Championships Day 2 with four Group Ones, two Group Twos and a Group 3 even...

What we took away from Sunday's Group racing is that local prospects for the Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) in December are once again looking strong in the areas where they have al...

It is as important to know when not to bet as it is when to bet. Many uneducated punters gamble for the action. You see them at the track and in the TABS, punters who have to have a bet regardles...

It is as important to know when not to bet as it is when to bet. Many uneducated punters gamble for the action. You see them at the track and in the TABS, punters who have to have a bet regardles...

It is as important to know when not to bet as it is when to bet. Many uneducated punters gamble for the action. You see them at the track and in the TABS, punters who have to have a bet regardles...