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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...

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort has gone to the paddock with trainer Peter Moody yet to make a decision on the colt's immediate racing future.Statistics are weighing heavily on Moody w...

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort has gone to the paddock with trainer Peter Moody yet to make a decision on the colt's immediate racing future.Statistics are weighing heavily on Moody w...

Connections of Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort have knocked back another seven-figure offer for the rising three-year-old who will make his comeback next month ahead of his Group One C...

Connections of Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort have knocked back another seven-figure offer for the rising three-year-old who will make his comeback next month ahead of his Group One C...

The Clinton McDonald-trained Second Effort maintained his unbeaten record on wet tracks when he won the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool, edging out comeback mare Wealth Princess.The five-yea...

Improving four-year-old Second Effort will chase his fifth win a row in the Listed Monash Stakes as hopes grow that he can develop into another Regal Roller.Secret Effort's trainer Clinton McDonald...