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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...

They're off...The first three international horses across the line in the Melbourne Cup have left Australia and will shoot for overseas riches. Third placegetter Jakkalberry, fast-finishing Mount A...

Herb Reeves is a psychologist who makes a living explaining to American punters how to correct their wayward betting habits. What he has to say in his motivational talks is as relevant to us here ...

IT IS a race that does not promote warm memories for Mick Price, but the trainer confidently predicted he had unearthed a contender for the $1 million group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes in February after ...

Three years to the day that Craig Newitt described as the worst of his life, the jockey had one of the most satisfying wins of his career aboard Samaready in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes.Newi...

David Hayes believes Mama's Choice and General Rippa give him two worthy contenders as he tries to extend his Blue Diamond record to six successes in Saturday's $1 million two-year-old feature at C...

Ben Richards, a marketing executive, has been a studious but amateur punter for some 20 years and is very successful in what he calls his 'own moderate way'. I love to have a bet. A bet on anythi...