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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...

NZ star Jimmy Choux - winless at the Melbourne spring carnival - is off to Hong Kong to tackle the world's richest 1600m race, the $1.5 million Hong Kong Mile. JC will be one of only a handful Aust...

Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club have announced a momentous change to the Sydney autumn racing program, heralding a grand finale event towards the end of the Southern Hemisphere Thoroughbr...

Racing NSW are confident prizemoney levels for The Championships are sustainable despite the NSW Government so far committing support for only one year, reports Racing Network.

The $2.65 million Caulfield Cup - richest 2400m in the world - has attracted 25 overseas entries in an overall nomination of 222, including the past two Melbourne Cup winners Americain and Dunaden....

Hotting up...The Golden Slipper battle is clicking into another gear. John O'Shea is at the centre of Monday morning's news on the 2YO classic. He has two live prospects after Foxwedge's impressive...

Auckland Cup Week kicks off on Saturday with the running of the $2.2m Grp 1 New Zealand Derby (3YO, 2400m) at Ellerslie. With a purse of NZ$2.2 mil, the Derby is the richest event on offer for 3YOs...