Too Much Lip 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...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to address a seminar on greyhound racing betting. A handful of keen punters were there to toss around ideas and to have a few drinks (not necessarily in that order)....

A few weeks ago, I was invited to address a seminar on greyhound racing betting. A handful of keen punters were there to toss around ideas and to have a few drinks (not necessarily in that order)....

In my previous PPM article, “Stick to the Easy Races" (August PPM), I wrote about a bad run of outs I had encountered betting on races in Perth and how I backtracked to find out where I had become...

Each year we punters set out on a fresh odyssey. It's our search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most punters never find it. Much the same odyssey is undertaken each year, by peop...

Each year we punters set out on a fresh odyssey. It's our search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most punters never find it. Much the same odyssey is undertaken each year, by peop...

Every time you study the formguide you are adopting what may be called a mechanical process in coming up with your selections. I think it's true to say that most punters follow the same "pathway"...