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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 ...
Hawkesbury filly Sheer Style didn't handle the heavy going, but her class lifted her to victory in Sunday's Magic Million Clockwise Classic at Ballarat. Jockey Jason Collett was forced to work ...
Leading jumps trainer Robbie Laing believes hurdle racing in Australia can be made much safer by adopting the obstacles used in Europe.One of the many issues facing jumps racing should Racing Victo...
From NEIL FRANKLYNARTISTIC3f : Trainer - Shaune Ritchie4 starts : 2 wins Win distance range : 1200m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Dead : SlowIt looks like this young filly is going places fast j...
AKAVOROUN made a triumphant return with a big win at Warrnambool one year after his last race. The Ciaron Maher-trained galloper made it three wins from as many starts when he burst throug...
Turn me into Columbo! That seems to be the plea of Victoria's chief racing steward Terry Bailey. The Melbourne Herald-Sun reports that Bailey wants 'greater powers' to gather information, including...
Trainer John O'Shea was a relieved man after smart colt Foxwedge signalled his spring carnival intentions with a first-up win in the Group Three San Domenico Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.Runner-u...
Champion jockey Douglas Whyte and the man who may be champion trainer, Tony Cruz, have proved a potent team and they can continue that association with Best Fit in the Maverick Star Handicap (1,200...
Chad Schofield seems to have become the latest fall-guy for stewards. He's out until Mar 18 after copping his 8th suspension this season for his winning ride on Auld Burns. Trainer David Hayes says...
Trainer Mark Kavanagh is doing his best to douse the hype surrounding his top 3YO Shocking as he readies him for the Queensland Derby 2400m at Eagle Farm, probably on a rain-affected track. He says...