Summation Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

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...

No surprise - the Kiwis are really unhappy that the racing press in the UK and Ireland is calling champ So You Think an all-Australian star! NZ Thoroughbred Marketing growls: 'The only blip in trai...

Trainer Mike Moroney has mixed feelings about another wet weekend as he attempts to win the Group Three Eclipse Stakes with Our Tigress and Viking Hero at Sandown.The heavy rain forecast would favo...

For over a decade, I’ve sold and counselled in the use of record-keeping software for handicappers. Keeping and analysing betting records is both the thing that handicappers least like to do – m...

A Few months ago a professional punter friend invited me to his home to watch him at work on his form study. I was keen as this man has a fully computerised set-up, and downloads fields and rating...

Almost every day, here at PPM, we receive letters from readers who, in desperation, turn to us for advice on staking. Mostly, they are punters who have never gotten their heads around the fact tha...

When we talk about 'comprehensive handicapping' we mean an approach to form analysis that attempts to take into account as many key factors as possible. This can be a daunting task for most Auss...