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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...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

The best plans of trainer Steve Farley have gone somewhat astray with Gazza Guru this summer and he is banking on a track improvement at Rosehill for the Christmas Cup.Farley based the stayer's pre...

The best plans of trainer Steve Farley have gone somewhat astray with Gazza Guru this summer and he is banking on a track improvement at Rosehill for the Christmas Cup.Farley based the stayer's pre...

Co-trainers Lee and Shannon Hope have seized the opportunity to launch Guru Bob's spring campaign on the synthetic track at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.Lee Hope said he was left with f...

Co-trainers Lee and Shannon Hope have seized the opportunity to launch Guru Bob's spring campaign on the synthetic track at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.Lee Hope said he was left with f...

Co-trainers Lee and Shannon Hope have seized the opportunity to launch Guru Bob's spring campaign on the synthetic track at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.Lee Hope said he was left with f...

Co-trainers Lee and Shannon Hope have seized the opportunity to launch Guru Bob's spring campaign on the synthetic track at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.Lee Hope said he was left with f...