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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 ...
THIS year's Bendigo Cup in October has been afforded new significance. The cup will be run over 2400 metres this year and next, which makes it a qualifying race for the Melbourne Cup six days later...
Melbourne Cup on the agenda...That's the word from the Bart Cummings camp following the assured win of So You Think in the 2000m Yalumba at Caulfield. Now as hot as you can get for the Cox Plate, S...
The spring fortunes of promising stayer Lamasery have been resurrected to the point where his trainer wants to press for a Melbourne Cup start.Lamasery will make a belated southern debut when he st...
New Zealand trainer Alexander Fieldes has assured Racing Victoria Limited stewards that Melbourne Cup prospect Capecover is 100 per cent fit for Wednesday's Bendigo Cup.However acting chairman of s...
Kiwi trainer Alexander Fieldes has assured stewards that Bendigo Cup topweight Capecover is '100 per cent fit', despite earlier claiming the horse had feet problems. Stewards say Capecover, who is ...
New Zealand stayer Capecover is likely to take the Bendigo Cup route as his Melbourne Cup leadup run.Trainer Alexander Fieldes has also nominated Capecover for the Lexus (2500m), formerly the Saab ...
AFTER years of trying to bolster the profile of the Bendigo Cup to make it a qualifying race for the Melbourne Cup, Bendigo has been asked to make a submission to Racing Victoria, reports The Age.I...