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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 ...
In this article I am going to continue the analysis of last-start winners that formed the basis of last month's article. In particular we will look at last-start winners strike rates for coming se...
When we look at statistics in horseracing, we are really looking at what the 'past' has created - a set of figures based on many years' racing, which are so levelled out as to be considered a real...
Why do winners win? As we all know, there are a thousand answers to that one question! But by examining the 'why' of previous winners we get the chance to discover patterns. We can find that certa...
Many last-start winners win again and one region potential profit source: Perth! WA racing has always displayed a certain level of consistency. The track ratings are nearly always fast, and, with...
TOMMY Berry added to his impressive Hong Kong season yesterday with a treble at Sha Tin on the second last meeting of the season. Berry rode winners for John Moore (Smart Man), Francis Lui (Colu...
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...
A sensational SIX straight winners for the PPD Club's popular ImpactPro ratings on Monday - what a way to start the week! The 'clean sweep' followed some excellent winning selections in recen...
One of the earliest investigations I carried out as a young and enthusiastic racing researcher concerned horses that had won their last start. The exercise involved more than 2000 instances where...
A number of horses who have expressed an appreciation for the spacious Flemington track over the past week are a chance of returning to Australia's most famous racecourse when it hosts its third me...
Many systems have a rule which states, “the horse must have won its last start”. This month we’ll examine this aspect of the winners of 660 races and see whether the rule is sound. We’ll also in...