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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...

Despite a less than perfect lead up campaign, Victoria Derby winner Monaco Consul has settled in well at Randwick in prep for Sat's AJC Derby. Paul Moroney, brother of trainer Mike Moroney, says th...

Well, that's one bit out the way...The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board has fined jockey Danny Nikolic $3,000 after his guilty pleas to insulting and abusive behaviour to stewards and four of ...

Don't rinse your mouth out with beer - at least not next to the barrier stalls just before a race and where you can be spotted and dobbed-in by the Official Starter! Danny Nikolic has learned this ...

Tim Clark's recent winning form for Darley has been rewarded with the jockey retaining the plum ride on Parables in the Group Two Furious Stakes at Randwick.With Darley's number one rider Kerrin Mc...

Trainer Anthony  Cummings will consider a Sandown Guineas start for Surge Ahead, courageous winner of today’s Connoisseur Stakes (1800 m) at Flemington.  Cummings says there is plenty of upside ...

Rick Hore-Lacy may have come up with the surprise packet for the Caulfield Guineas. His gritty grey Chase The Rainbow has loomed into contention with a fine win on the Geelong synthetic track on Su...