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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...

Last month I began telling you about the quick, time-saving method I use to simplify 'doing the form'. Initially I look for potential losers. First among these is potential LOSING RACES. To quick...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...

Why does everything seem to go wrong when you back a home you think has a race shot to bits? Why do all your well-thought-out plans go bust? In this article, Statsman explains The Chaos Factor. T...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...