Predictable Miss 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...

Life, in the world of betting on racehorses, means a constant search for a new angle. It's what we at PPM are always looking out for, something new and interesting that others haven't thought abou...

The battle between level stakes betting and some form of 'fancy' staking is one that rages on wherever racing and betting is discussed. Naturally enough, it's an issue that affects us all every ti...

The battle between level stakes betting and some form of 'fancy' staking is one that rages on wherever racing and betting is discussed. Naturally enough, it's an issue that affects us all every ti...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

A handicapper who can win as frequently as the crowd, 33 per cent, but at 5/2 odds (the public averages 8/5), boasts a splendid 15 per cent edge on the game. As Dick Mitchell has pointed out, by i...