Silent Command Horse

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...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown believes Ambers Waltz's last-start defeat has her primed for victory in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast on Saturday.A wide barrier, ...

Last month we looked at how we could improve profits from place betting on the trots. This month, I thought I’d try the same thing again but this time we’d be looking into the dogs. I was intrig...

Last month we looked at how we could improve profits from place betting on the trots. This month, I thought I’d try the same thing again but this time we’d be looking into the dogs. I was intrig...

A new series on how to use your formguide One of the great obstacles facing each and every punter is how to find some new way of approaching an old subject. How can you get a fresh angle that m...