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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...

Matt Stewart, of the Melbourne Herald Sun, reckons Kerrin McEvoy (a Victorian) has become the 'whipping boy' for Sydney's racing media, even the chief steward. Stewart's had a stinging crack at TVN...

Nick Williams has denied he and his father Lloyd have imposed any kind of media ban but says comments about their racing operation will come from them not their trainer or jockeys.Lloyd Williams is...

Nick Williams has denied he and his father Lloyd have imposed any kind of media ban but says comments about their racing operation will come from them not their trainer or jockeys.Lloyd Williams is...

Aussie stars Scenic Blast and Takeover Target are at the epi-centre of a publicity storm in the UK. They'll run in an important workout at Ascot on Thursday. In fact, thyey are the superstar attrac...

TRAINER Mark Kavanagh prides himself on knowing his horses inside out, but even he learnt something about the Caulfield Cup hot favourite December Draw yesterday, reports The Age. It says: The impo...

The Irish-bred stayer Bauer has it all on the line when he runs in Wednesday's Group Three Geelong Cup.But those who know him best believe he is up to a task so famously achieved by his compatriot ...