Put A Spell On You 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...

There were a number of horses racing second-up from spells at Eagle Farm on December 5. All lost. At Sandown that day, there were 11 horses in that category. All lost. At Rosehill, there were six....

How do you know when a horse is at, or approaching, peak fitness? PPM's  Richard Hartley Jnr tells all in this article, and explains how you can instantly find major prospects in a race. Every pr...

We hear a lot about the 'second-up syndrome'. Those who believe in it make the sweeping generalisation that horses racing second-up from a spell never win. They avoid them like the plague. But wh...

Last month I began to outline the major steps I take to come up with a set of selections that make me a consistent winner. I wrote that all it requires is: About one-and-a-half hours of your ti...

Pick 'em to win and bet 'em to place! How often have we heard that little piece of advice? Lots. But the man who originated it had a moot point. He should have drawn the line at a certain price. ...

Little bits of information taken individually they may not amount to much, but put them together in a mass and it could be a vastly different story. The aim of this series has been to bring toget...