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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 ...
Robert Smerdon's Eclair Mystic is early fav at $5.50 for Sat's Standish Hdcp 1200m at Flemington. The TAB Sportsbet mafrket on Thursday afternoon:STANDISHECLAIR MYSTIC 5.50 2.12 CHASM 6.00 2.25 MIS...
The autumn program of Adelaide three-year-old Spirited Eagle will become clearer after he takes on Group One winner Anacheeva in the Zeditave Stakes.Trainer Leon Macdonald said he believed the geld...
Robert Smerdon will use the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington on New Year's Day as a guide to the potential autumn carnival targets for progressive sprinter Eclair Mystic.After stringing ...
Another great winning headlined best bet for PPD Club members on Thursday. Club chief Brian Blackwell handed out the winning tip for WILD JOURNEY 1 st $6.60/$2.60 at Hawkesbury. Here...
The Robert Smerdon-trained three-year-old Eclair Mystic emerged as a Standish Handicap and autumn prospect when he resumed to beat a smart open class field at Flemington on Saturday.The Stratum gel...
Eclair Mystic has kept his Australian Guineas hopes alive with a hard-fought win in the Listed Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Robert Smerdon said the Stratum three-year-old would push on towa...
Irish trainer Willie Mullins is plotting yet another assault on the Emirates Melbourne Cup, hoping his form in the race can continue on an upward spiral in 2016. Among Mullins' prospective trav...
Robert Smerdon says it could be only a matter of time before Eclair Flyer proves himself as good as his more accomplished stablemate Eclair Mystic.Both three-year-olds are owned by Macau Jockey Clu...
Last start winner Wealthy Lad will make a belated bid to qualify for next month's Winter Championship Final at Flemington.One of Tasmania's headline gallopers, the four-year-old made a big impressi...