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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...

Trainer Jake Stephens says Alcopop is "better than ever" as he attempts to go one better than in last year's Group One Caulfield Stakes.The seven-year-old has thrilled Stephens with his form this c...

Mention multiple betting in M the one race to some punters and they'll shudder and turn off. They're just not interested. As one chap told me recently: "I can't be bothered trying to work out what...

Mention multiple betting in M the one race to some punters and they'll shudder and turn off. They're just not interested. As one chap told me recently: "I can't be bothered trying to work out what...

Mention multiple betting in M the one race to some punters and they'll shudder and turn off. They're just not interested. As one chap told me recently: "I can't be bothered trying to work out what...

In another of my articles this month, I issued a general warning about getting too deeply involved in the Cups’ season, which only lasts from beginning to end maybe three weeks maximum. This is ...

When we talk about 'level stake' betting what are we really saying about our punting technique? Is the fact that we only dare bet each horse for the same amount of money indicative of cowardice or...