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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 ...
Leading Sydney apprentice Josh Adams has been outed for seven months for returning a positive test to an unnamed banned drug.A urine sample provided by the 19-year-old at the Gosford race meeting o...
Former top apprentice Jason Maskiell has been suspended for six months after testing positive to the illegal drug ice.The wayward jockey fronted Racing Victoria stewards on Monday after traces of m...
Veteran Queensland jockey Shane Scriven has been handed a career-threatening five-month ban for stealing an apprentice's whip during a race at Ipswich last week.Throughout his 30-year career, Scriv...
Not such a happy day...Stewards have suspended Luke Nolen after his winning ride on Tee Emar at Caulfield. They say he allowed the 3YO to shift in at the 100m mark of the McNamara Handicap (1800m)...
Nikita Beriman has been outed for 3 months for her ride on Shadow Land at Warrnambool on Nov 4. She was found guilty by stewards of failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures throughou...
Nick Hall was in trouble - again - with stewards at Caulfield. He will miss next Saturday's Cox Plate meeting after copping a suspension for careless riding. He also was fined $5000 for excessive w...
Corey's ready for admiration...Corey Brown will replace the suspended Brenton Avdulla on the well-fancied Secret Admirer in the Grp 3 Tramway (1400m) at Randwick on Sat week. The Grp winning mare ...
Chris Munce's return to Queensland has been soured by stewards who suspended him for careless riding in the Magic Millions Sprint at the Gold Coast.Munce had not ridden in Queensland since he won t...
Jockey Nick Hall will know more on Wednesday whether he will be able to return to the saddle this spring. The 28-year-old has missed more than three months of riding after he had surgery on a l...
Canberra trainer Nick Olive heads to Albury Thursday with a juvenile and in-form four-year-old looking to land a winning double, reports Racing NSW. The Olive stable, which has been enjoying a go...