Secrets No More 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...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

I’ve long held to the belief that you can learn something from everyone, no matter his or her station in life, or geographic location. The thinking really applies to horseracing betting. I’ve sea...

How do you feel when confronted with column after column of trackwork gallops in your weekend Sportsman? Like most punters, I guess you're a bit baffled. What do we make of the times each horse cl...

Sometimes, the simplest aspects of racing defeat the ordinary punter. I could cite money management as an example. Reduced to its basic level - flat stakes - betting is an easily operable form of ...

In this, the second of a three-part series, Heale Hartley continues his in-depth look at staking plans and makes some interesting conclusions about a variety of staking plans and concepts. Before...