Turn The Ace Horse

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...

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 search for an angle that Twill turn the tide! We're all after it in racing, and especially those of us who like to dig deep into the form book. The problem with 'angles' is that they tend to b...

In the second article in this series, PPM editor Brian Blackwell continues his analysis of recent results, and this month looks at a couple of big-race winners. Taking a ‘leap of faith’ is often ...

PPD Club members were handed a brilliant betting coup on Wednesday thanks to our ace form analys t Brian Blackwell, who tipped DE LITTLE ENGINE 1st $26.90 and ZEDEEL 2nd in race 6 at Sand...

Punting is a mentally draining experience, at times, especially when a horse you have followed for a couple of runs wins at good odds and you have not backed it. Alas, Duporth did this to me on Sat...

Punting is a mentally draining experience, at times, especially when a horse you have followed for a couple of runs wins at good odds and you have not backed it. Alas, Duporth did this to me on Sat...

The winning spring carnival tsunami continues for the PPD Club's ace tipster Brian Blackwell with his Daily Specials notching success after success. At the weekend, BB struck with REAL LOVE 1s...