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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...

Here's a tip from Kiwi Land...Look out for Vigor's brother Joey Massino. NZ Thorougnbred News says: 'The competitive nature of the 3YO O'Reilly coltwas plain for all to see in Sat's Grp 2 Avondale ...

Early market movers from TAB Sportsbet for the major cards on SaturdayWARWICK FARM 1 Daymo $4.60 - $4.40 ($1500 @ $4.60)2 St Beune $1400 @ $2.80, Flying Empress $1000 & $600 @ $3.803 Bella Kuria $1...

Profound Beauty has forfeited Melbourne Cup favouritism following her distant fourth in the Irish St Leger.The Dermot Weld-trained mare finished 23-1/2 lengths from the winner Alandi in Saturday's ...

Profound Beauty has forfeited Melbourne Cup favouritism following her distant fourth in the Irish St Leger.The Dermot Weld-trained mare finished 23-1/2 lengths from the winner Alandi in Saturday's ...

Punters have rallied behind the Bart Cummings-trained Precedence as he ramps up his Melbourne Cup campaign via Saturday's Group Two Cathay Pacific Airways Cup at Moonee Valley.A luckless last-start...

Aquanita trainer Heath Conners says he wouldn't change a thing with Davcon after months of planning to win Saturday's Winter Championship Final at Flemington.Conners said even the barrier draw has ...