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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...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

The multi-billion dollar Hunter Valley thoroughbred breeding industry is calling on the NSW government to come good on its election promise and protect their agricultural land from future mining pr...

John Hawkes knows how to get the best out of a Zabeel and from what we saw at Seymour on Friday he has another promising candidate to work with, reports www.breednet.com.au. It says: Three year-old...

More than six months have passed since PPM printed an interview with the legendary US handicapper Mark Cramer. His earlier books are a little hard to find, but his most recent work, Value Handic...

When you take a maiden to Newcastle, you'd like to think you'd be taking on lesser opposition, so rival trainers would not have been thrilled to be lining up on Saturday against the half-sisters to...

Blue-blood fillies Celebrities Choice and Taste of Heaven generated much of the pre-race talk at Canterbury on Wednesday, but it was unheralded War Pass (USA) filly Hadiklaim that had them all co...

Is Scarlett Lady another Ethereal? Could be. The Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained 3YO scored a brilliant win in the Qld Oaks 2400m at Eagle Farm, powering home by 2.5 lens over Becerra and Shez S...