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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...

Peter Moody says an indefinite suspension to horse transport by domestic airlines will not stop him from taking champion Black Caviar to Brisbane for two Group One races next month.However he said ...

Exciting sprinter Black Caviar makes her much-anticipated return from an injury-enforced layoff in Saturday's Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield.Unbeaten in five starts, she hasn't raced since landing h...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...