Pointy End Horse

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...

With the dust barely settled after GREEN MOON's Melbourne Cup victory, Alan Eskander's Betstar has launched its opening markets for next year's spring majors, and it is Cup runner-up FIORENTE who h...

Miracles Of Life and Diamond Glow, two fillies right at the pointy end of the TAB's early Blue Diamond Market, head an impressive list of 12 nominations for the $120,000 Listed Patinack Farm Blue D...

From RACING POST HKPeter Ng Bik-kuen's Super Plus is reaching the end of his tether at the top of Class Three, but has found the right race to make it three straight wins in the grade and can act a...

Neither of Chad Schofield’s Group 1 rides in Brisbane this Saturday are at the pointy end of the market, but that won’t prevent him from heading to Eagle Farm with a pep in his step, reports Raci...