Pressing Matters Horse

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...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

This is the third article in a series in which top US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and downside of racing and betting. In last month's article, Joe answered 10 of the questions he pose...

This is the third article in a series in which top US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and dovmside of racing and betting. In last month's article, Joe answered 10 of the questions he pose...