Point Be 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...

Gai Waterhouse stamped her authority on TAB’s Australian Guineas market by producing impressive galloper Bull Point fresh from a spell to down a hot field in the John Moule Manfred Stakes at Caul...

The whip rules controversy is moving swiftly to crisis point...A number of well-known jockeys are pressing for industrial action. The jockeys want the poorly-framed new rules to be thrown out. They...

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...

The late Philip Alexander was regarded as one of Britain's leading systems and staking experts. PPM has acquired the rights to the many articles he wrote in his lifetime and they will form the bas...

One thing leads to another ... This is one of the lessons we learn early in life, isn't it? In other words, cause and effect. You do one thing and it has an effect. Kick a football towards a windo...

This article attempts to show the use of the point to replace the dollar concept in your betting strategy. We consider some very basic but serious reflections on betting technique, then ask why we...