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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...

Having heavily invested on Helmet in opening Guineas markets (and with a pretty solid crack at an early Guineas-Cox Plate double to boot), you could say I was slightly agitated as the gates crashed...

UK raider Jakkalberry caught the eye when he hit the track at Werribee on Wednesday. ''Travelling doesn't seem to worry him at all and he has already started to put on weight,'' says Jakkalberry's ...

The final batch of international horses were scheduled to arrive in Melbourne on Sat to join the four already stationed at Sandown. Expected are Mourilyan (Melbourne Cup) and stablemate Bankable (M...

Look out Brisbane, Sid's on the way...Co-trainer Bill Wilde says his Warrnambool Cup winner Hissing Sid will head north for the Brisbane Cup 2400m. He reckons the prospect of a wet winter carnival ...

Frankel lived up to the billing as he ran out a brilliant winner of the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, UK. The build-up to the contest was intense as the star three-year-old miler took on Canford...

Sir Henry Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mismatch in the Susse...