What A Peach 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...

What makes up a good system? Well, the answer is any set of rules that actually works and comes up with winners at profitable odds! Seriously, though, this is something a lot of people have thoug...

Recently we made mention in PPM of a noted UK expert Che Van der Wheil. Since then we've had many requests for more information on his approach to racing, both in selection and staking. Van der...

There are two ways you can go in betting. Either way can lead to success or disaster. As with most things in life, much depends on you. If you make the wrong decisions, nothing will save you. So ...

In my younger days, I once worked on a building site in England. I was doing the time-honoured 'Aussie boy goes back to the Old Dart' routine (and I had the time of my life). Anyway, the foreman s...

There's been a resurgence of interest in recent times in all aspects of "alternative handicapping" with the work of experts like Mark Cramer, Ed Bain and George Kaywood coming in for much closer e...