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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 ...
Lee Freedman refers to her as a "roughie" but betting agencies are not taking any chances with Estee who is set to give the Hall Of Fame trainer his fifth Group One Rupert Clarke Stakes victory at ...
MELBOURNE Cup legend Bart Cummings is already preparing his arsenal for a 13th Melbourne Cup - and Star Ripper could be a big gun, reports Ray Thomas in the Daily Telegraph.His report adds: Star Ri...
WHILE most eyes will be turned to Sydney on Saturday for the Rosehill Guineas and the last lead-up races to the Golden Slipper, at Caulfield Lee Freedman will be rolling out a further three imports...
GUY Walter is looking to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups with Zanbagh , now a runner-up in the VRC and ATC Oaks.
Neil Dyer is confident Hawks Bay is on track for another Darwin Cup campaign despite the gelding having to wear glue-on shoes for the first time at Flemington.Dyer said the gear change was precauti...
David Hayes is growing in confidence about winning his second Australian Guineas in three years after Nicconi posted a key lead-up win at Caulfield.The talented three-year-old made it three wins fr...
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