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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 ...
He has a flamboyant name, and if his riding style is anything to go by, it suits him down to the ground.... Teenaged Frenchman Mickael Barzalona won the Epsom Derby on the Andre Fabre trained Pour ...
His stable name is God but trainer Pat Webster believes Thankgodyou'rehere may need some divine intervention to win the Minister's Cup at the Gold Coast.Thankgodyou'rehere's hopes in Saturday's 130...
A change in routine and a return to weight-for-age conditions has trainer Neville Parnham hopeful of back-to-back Kingston Town Stakes wins with Playing God.The four-year-old needs to bounce back f...
Neville Parnham has flagged the possibility of Australian Cup hope Playing God extending his eastern seaboard tour to contest next month's AJC Australian Derby.Parnham said the Australian Guineas p...
Star West Australian Playing God has been heavily backed to win the Makybe Diva Stakes despite his trainer declaring him vulnerable second-up in the Flemington feature.TAB Sportsbet has slashed the...
Trainer Sharyn Trolove has decided to take on the better class mares at Flemington with country-trained God Help Her after scratching the four-year-old from a Sandown midweek meeting to avoid a hea...
Leading West Australian trainer Neville Parnham says Playing God hasn't peaked yet but is pretty close to it for Sunday's Group One Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.Parnham is preparing the four-year-...
Company director Wayne Sayers hopes his decision to send former Victorian Sons Of God to trainer Rob Heathcote will be further vindicated at next month's Magic Millions carnival at the Gold Coast.S...
Top Brisbane hoop Glen Colless will venture to Sydney for just one ride on Wednesday as he continues a comeback to the saddle following a fall at Doomben last month.Colless will partner the Alan Ba...