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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 ...
A change of tactics for Scouting Wide produced the desired result when the in-form stayer ran his rivals ragged in the Christmas Cup at Rosehill.After Scouting Wide was well beaten by Star Ripper t...
Emerging staying star Beijing Boy kept Chris Waller's incredible winning streak at Rosehill going with a determined victory over 2000 metres.Waller has now trained at least one winner at 18 consec...
Scouting Wide continues to please Tim Martin with the trainer declaring him a definite starter in the Group Three Summer Cup at Randwick.Martin has been keeping a close eye on the Zabeel gelding si...
It's arrived, almost: the Melbourne Cup beckons tomorrow and what a ripper of a race it is with all the conjecture about the chances of So You Think, the new champion of Australian racing. Right fr...
If the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm comes down to a dogfight, Tony Gollan knows who he'd like to be on.The Toowoomba trainer will saddle up his first Group One runner, Listen Son, in...
Melito may get her chance to turn the tables on All-Aged Stakes winner Hot Danish in next month's Group One Doomben 10,000, but a bigger prize awaits the Sydney filly in the $1 million Stradbroke H...
Caulfield trainer Mick Price has elected to continue the Interstate preparations of exciting juveniles Pressing and Jazz Song, despite below par returns from their respective runs at Doomben this ...
Chris Munce will keep the ride on Doncaster Mile runner-up Love Conquers All in two Group One races during the Queensland winter carnival.Munce has been booked to ride the sprinter-miler, one of th...