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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 ...
Zac Purton took advantage of Joao Moreira's absence to draw another two wins clear at the top of the jockeys' championship, and he feels there could be another win in store for one of his winners,...
Zac Purton is quickly becoming another Hong Kong superstar. After his final day treble at Sha Tin, the Racing Post in HK says: 'He's made great leaps this season and left no one in any doubt about ...
Aussie jockey Zac Purton has made a brilliant start to the new racing season in Hong Kong. He booted home 3 winners at last Sat's opening day meeting at Shatin. The HK Racing Post says: 'Season ope...
Zac Purton is going to have to be at his brilliant best to make it happen but lightly raced Renaissance Art is the one to beat in the Hong Kong University Alumni Association Challenge Cup (1,800...
The Zac Purton caravan just keeps rolling on, with the Australian jockey stretching his championship lead to 15 at Sha Tin with another winning treble, reports the HK Racing Post (www.racing.scmp...
We may need two pairs of sunglasses for an outlook this bright. This was a season to have Charles Dickens spinning in his grave. It was the best of the times, it was...the best of times. An age of...
Aussie jockey Zac Purton grabbed a rare opportunity for the John Moore stable to claim his first Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin and break the trainer's Grp One drought for the season with Military A...
From RACING POST in Hong Kong King Derby gives Australian jockey Christian Reith a good chance at a breakthrough success on Thursday night at Happy Valley, where a better draw can help the Dan...
from RACING POST in HKAn inside draw, an in-form jockey and the most upside of any horse in the race make Danny Shum Chap-shing's Hei Hei Posh the best banker in tomorrow's HK$1.7 million jackpot-b...
Zac Purton put on a riding clinic with a four-timer at Happy Valley on Wednesday night that gave his jockeys' championship hopes a boost at a critical juncture of the season and delivered a featu...