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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 ...
Promising three-year-old Southern Skye will be trainer Paul Perry's first Victoria Derby runner after turning in a super trial in the Geelong Classic.Jockey Dan Nikolic rode for luck from the back ...
While he concedes My Scotsgrey lacks experience and race craft, trainer Shaune Ritchie believes he has the attitude and pedigree to be more than competitive in Saturday's Victoria Derby.Ritchie wat...
French stayer Brigantin will run in the 2400m Geelong Cup at his first start in Australia. Racing Victoria's international recruitment consultant, Leigh Jordon, says Brigantin's trainer Andre Fabre...
The fine weather forecast for Sydney this week is good news for trainer Paul Perry and his Lord Mayor's Cup contender Southern Skye.The gelding needs a firm track to show his best and he looks like...
Victoria Derby winner Sangster will miss the Melbourne spring carnival. Instead, the 4YO will chase autumn feature success in New Zealand. Sangster beat Induna in the Victoria Derby but then had fi...
Kiwi trainer John Wheeler had 5 winners in NZ on Wednesday -- so watch out for the in-form mentor in the two feature-jumps races at Sandown on Saturday. Wheeler has Yamanaura in the Australian Hurd...
6-02.55 AAMI VICTORIA DERBY 2500 M Of $1500000 and $10000 trophies. 1st $900000 and trophies of $8000 to owner $1000 to trainer $1000 to jockey, 2nd $270000, 3rd $135000, 4th $67500, 5th $37500, 6t...
Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien was happy with barrier 10 for Melbourne Cup favourite Septimus but not so happy with the firmness of the Flemington track on Saturday.O'Brien stopped short of saying Sep...
Progressive NZ 3YO Ginner Hart may be Australia bound after a cracking start to his classic year at Hastings. Wanganui trainer Alexander Fieldes, who races the gelding with his brother Frazer, is k...