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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 ...
Anger mounts...Trainers will demand the VRC employ security staff to protect horses at future music festivals planned for Flemington in the wake of the Australia Day break-ins. A Flemington-based t...
Nash Rawiller was absent from Rosehill on Saturday but still managed to be the centre of attention in a dispute between Gai Waterhouse and John O'Shea for his services.Stewards were called on to of...
With little light on the horizon with regard to prizemoney increases in Queensland, the Queensland Racehorse Owners' Association (QROA) has questioned the wisdom of the State Governments focus on i...
Record-breaking New Zealand apprentice James McDonald's book for a much-anticipated Randwick cameo has more than doubled.McDonald, lured to ride in Sydney on Saturday by Randwick trainer John O'She...
Michelle Payne is looking forward to the week ahead after finding her best form at the weekend with four city winners, including a double at Moonee Valley on Sunday.Payne, knocked about by a dose o...
Craig Williams, fresh from his success in the Meydan Masters International Jockey Challenge in Dubai last week, will return to Australia with close to a full book of Magic Millions day rides.Willia...
DEMAND for Damien Oliver in big races continues with the Hall of Fame jockey today booked for Ferlax in Saturday’s Toorak Handicap. Trainer Jim Conlan engaged Oliver for Ferlax, which has been ri...
Trainer Paul Murray's declaration that Predatory Pricer will bypass the Caulfield Cup has thrown early betting into a state of confusion. The stayer remains equal fav for the Caulfield 2400m classi...
It's a Black Caviar bonanza...The champ mare's upcoming start in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley is quickly looming as a sellout. Moonee Valley Racing Club CEO Michael Browell says demand ...
Champion Sydney apprentice Chad Schofield (son of Glyn Schofield) believes his riding future is in Victoria - so he's more than happy to be extending his time at David Hayes' Euroa stable. Schofiel...