Pick The Lock Horse

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...

I am fond of the Running Double as a strategy. You can bet it on most TABs these days.There are times when I know a horse in the second leg will be fancied, and when I agree with the assessment. So...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

Martin Dowling (M.D.): Gentlemen, this forum is going to be mainly about exotic and multiple betting, about which I know we all have firm views which we have shaped, and often changed, as the year...

Martin Dowling (M.D.): Gentlemen, this forum is going to be mainly about exotic and multiple betting, about which I know we all have firm views which we have shaped, and often changed, as the year...

This is the final part of US expert Joe Takach’s series on the upside and downside of betting. You can read more of Joe’s ideas at the www.netcapper.com or www.joe-takach.com websites. We star...