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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 ...
Eric Connolly was regarded as one of Australia's greatest professional punters. In his lifetime, he won massive fortunes, lost them, won them back and lost them again. In fact, at the time of his ...
Group performer Silent But Deadly headlines a trio of last-start winners in action for trainer Kris Lees at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Newcastle horseman believes the four-year-old, along with Mag...
Twelve Australian-trained horses have been nominated for New Zealand's richest weight-for-age race, the $NZ1.2 million ($A953,668) Kelt Capital Stakes at Hastings on October 3.Group One winners Gal...
Latest Caulfield Guineas betting (Betstar market) has Toorak Toff the early fav at $5.50 (9/2). The market on Thursday:Toorak Toff 5.50 Ilovethiscity 7.00 Anacheeva 11.00 Rekindled Interest 11.00 ...
Many of us go through life thinking we understand something, or assuming something to be right, when all the time we are wrong. I spent 30 years of my life believing that the word 'nonchalant' was...
The Smart Missile team will probably keep on thinking the colt could have btn Sepoy in the Golden Slipper. Personally, I doubt it. Smart Missile is still a bit erratic with his racing manners, and ...