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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...

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 this article our computer expert Neale Yardley investigates probabilities and dispels some common misconceptions many punters have about the so-called law of averages. During one of my recent ...

BALLARAT Turf Club’s venture to a stand alone Cup meeting proved a resounding success on all levels, reports Racing Network.   The club’s first ever Saturday Cup meeting at Sportsbet Ballarat...

Thursday's Ballarat meeting has been transferred to the Geelong Synthetic track. Heavy rain throughout Victoria over 24 hours, much of it in the Ballarat area, made the track unsafe for racing.

I don't mind progress, it's change I don't like...Racing Victoria has approved the state's first race to be run in the clockwise direction for more than 60 years. It'll be held at Ballarat - on beh...

Next Wednesday's Ballarat meeting will now be held on the Geelong Synthetic track. Ballarat was hit badly by the rain that swept Victoria on Wednesday. The rain has left the Sandown steeplechase tr...

Ballarat Turf Club is pushing for the Ballarat Cup to be a stand alone Saturday city meeting next year.Ballarat chief executive Shane Brennan said the club committee would meet next Monday to disc...