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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...

Trainer Guy Walter will be a happy man if the Frank Packer Plate tradition stands up again.Walter will run this year's Frank Packer Plate runner-up Orca in Saturday's Group Three Doomben Classic (1...

Chris Munce produced a magnificent rails ride on Yallingup who scored impressively for trainer Guy Walter in the Group Three Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.Walter was elated with the performance fr...

The Cox Plate has to be the #1 target for Whobegotyou in the wake of his brilliant Lawrence (Liston) Stks win. Whobe held off the late-closing Lights of Heaven by a long neck, and trainer Mark Kava...

IMPRESSIVE Messene could emerge as a lightweight Doncaster Handicap contender next year, reports Racing Network. Co-trainer John Hawkes says Messene, brilliant winner of Saturday’s December Handi...

James Packer yesterday became the outright owner of Betfair Australasia when he paid $10 million for the remaining 50 per cent, reports Racing Network. Packer was an original 50-percent sharehold...

It's tight - Australia's weight-for-age championship may still be 34 days away, but already there is a logjam of Group 1 horses queuing up for a Sportingbet Cox Plate start. While connections of ...