Off The Scale Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

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...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Building up a bankroll is one tough task! Ask any punter. It's easy enough to get your startup bank but it's another thing altogether to build on the bank. This is because racing is no business ...

Will we see female jockeys dominating raciing in a few years' time? Kate Mallyon reckons we will. On the comeback trail from some grim injuries, Kate has been sounding off about the 'weight power' ...

Sometimes the ordinary punter is mystified by things that really should be second nature. One of those is the matter of weights in racing. Weight for age is only a name. Don't be frightened by it...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...