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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...
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...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...
In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...
The amazing Neville 'Nifty' Wilson has finally called 'time up' on his riding career. It's something he's been dreading for years. Injured 18 months ago in a fall at Geelong, Wilson, 65, was hoping...
The decision's been made - champion mare Black Caviar will not take part in Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival. Trainer Peter Moody revealed on Monday that he's decided to rest the world's best spr...
Britain's usually one-eyed racing scribes can't get Frankel out of their collective minds and seem deaf to any constructive criticism about the superstar - but now one of them, Steve Mellish in the...
Master blaster Bart Cummings (83) is scoffing at suggestions he's about to retire...He says: 'Someone asked me if I'd think about retiring if So You Think wins the Cup today...Now why would I do th...
The push for Mighty High to win the Caulfield Cup is continuing, says TAB Sportsbet. It says the HK raider was $13 on Thursday and is now at $9.00. The bigger bets include:$10,000 e/w @ $13$10,000 ...
JOCKEY Darren Beadman reckons racing's grand slam is within his reach, declaring Caulfield Cup topweight Mighty High a good chance to break his drought in the world's richest 2400-metre handicap, r...
Latest news on Black Caviar...It's now being reported that the mighty mare may be produced on the international stage three months before her date before the Queen at Royal Ascot in June. The Age s...
Veteran turf scribe Max Presnell has launched a scathing attack on the Australian Turf Club.