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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...

David Hayes says Nicconi's "winnable weight" in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington has swayed him into running the four-year-old in the $1 million event.Nicconi will carry 56kg, one kilo l...

David Hayes says Nicconi's "winnable weight" in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington has swayed him into running the four-year-old in the $1 million event.Nicconi will carry 56kg, one kilo l...

When outsider Sparky Miss won the ABCOS Adelaide Million, a race with a first prize of $408,000, I'm sure most punters shook their heads in disbelief. After all, how could a youngster who'd been o...

Brilliant sprinter Reward For Effort will be an acceptor for Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley, but trainer Peter Moody says he is far from a certain starter if the track is sig...

Sth Aussie mare Southern Speed will run in the Cox Plate instead of the Caulfield Cup - and Damien Oliver is being touted as the jockey. Co- trainer Leon Macdonald confirms that Southern Speed, win...

Weather will be the key factor in where emerging sprint star Rain Affair runs on Saturday with trainer Joe Pride eyeing the Apollo Stakes in Sydney and the Futurity in Melbourne.While Rain Affair i...