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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 ...
Many punters, and form analysts say you should always forgive a good horse one bad run. I don't completely subscribe to this theory. What I do subscribe to is that we should fully investigate the...
Inexperience in the saddle and a wide draw won't be used as excuses if Somepin Anypin's winning run comes to an end in the Hobartville Stakes.Somepin Anypin will be chasing a hat-trick of Sydney wi...
Group One-winning sprinter Gold Trail will round off his preparation for Singapore's KrisFlyer Sprint with a barrier trial hitout at Warwick Farm on Friday.The gelding will then travel to Melbourne...
Trainer Danny O'Brien says the Group Two Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley will bring on his Australian Cup contender Vigor for what he hopes will be the six-year-old's best campaign yet.Vigor had ...
From NEIL FRANKLYNLAME EXCUSE4g : D Green : Waterlea5 starts : 2 winsWin distance range : 1000mTrack conditions won on : DeadThis bloke didn't show much during his first three starts but made up fo...
Trainer Barry Baldwin admits Havatryst faces a big task from his outside draw at Doomben on Saturday.Havatryst, who has drawn 17 in the Woolworths Handicap (1200m), won his first two starts this ca...
Trainer David Brideoake is resisting the temptation to back up Warm Love at Flemington and will instead aim her at Adelaide's last feature race of the season at the end of the month.Brideoake said ...
If Grahame Begg had his time over he would not have given Group One winner All Silent a winter carnival campaign in Brisbane.The Randwick trainer admits that in hindsight, connections made the wron...
No excuses! Brisbane trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely keen on the chances of his slick sprinter Buffering in Friday night's Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. 'There'll be no excuses if...
Michael Owen has his feet firmly on the ground when it comes to assessing Brown Panther's chances in Tuesday's Emirates Melbourne Cup, reports the Sporting Life (UK). Vintage Crop's ground-bre...