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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...

Training racehorses is more hobby than profession for Mario Caltabiano these days but that doesn't mean he has lost his competitive edge.Caltabiano will start Back On Top in the Hylands Kids Colour...

A horse who has swapped the hustle and bustle of one of Sydney's busiest stables for life on a far western NSW property will be trying to recapture past glories at Warwick Farm on Tuesday.Rocking O...

Can you actually win at punting? Yes — but not the way most punters go about it. In this one, Gordon works through a classic Practical Punting piece on what it really takes: the professional's mind...

In this third article, I want to address the issue of what punters expect from their betting. Do we want too much, not enough? Are we reasonable or unreasonable in our expectations? Now some of y...

Some early Magic Millions joy is about to come the way of central Queensland hobby trainer Julie Green.Green, who prepares Mundi Gully, a $35 outsider for Saturday's Magic Millions Classic (1200m) ...

A return to winning form by Dorf Command has trainer Clarry Conners keen for a rematch with Ortensia in the Winter Stakes, the final Group One race of the season.Dorf Command overcame a wide barrie...