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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 ...
Kiwi trainer Shaune Ritchie is quietly confident his filly Keep The Peace is good enough to hold her own in today's AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. He says: 'It is obviously going to be difficult...
New Zealand filly Keep The Peace arrives in Sydney this week to take on the colts and geldings in the AJC Australian Derby.The winner of the New Zealand Oaks on March 20, Keep The Peace is trained ...
Stephen Farley is quietly confident Gazza Guru can cause an upset and claim a home-town win in Friday's Listed Wyong Gold Cup.The six-year-old gelding is in career-best form and will be out to repe...
While all the Derby attention has been on Jimmy Choux, another Kiwi has been quietly going about his business before he attempts to upstage the star three-year-old at Randwick on Saturday.Roger Jam...
Shaune Ritchie will recommend Keep The Peace miss the Group One BMW and return to New Zealand on Monday after her disappointing display in the Ranvet Stakes.The trainer fronted stewards at Rosehill...
Victoria Derby winner Rebel Raider heads to Sydney next week to continue his autumn campaign aimed at adding the AJC Australian Derby to his spring classic.Trainer Leon Macdonald was pleased with t...
Trainer Mike Moroney is quietly confident the imported Glistening can give controversial jockey Stathi Katsidis a winning comeback ride in the Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday. It is likely...
Bart Cummings is content with his decision not to run Faint Perfume in the AJC Australian Derby and will rely on Rock Classic in Saturday's Randwick feature.The master trainer said he had learned f...