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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 ...
James Given is mapping out an ambitious and exciting programme in 2011 for his globe-trotting duo of Dandino and Indian Days.The trainer is targeting major international events such as the Singapor...
How many of us knew that mighty NZ mare Sunline would lead in the Cox Plate? I guess it wouldn't have taken a racing Einstein to figure it out. Yet that one piece of information might well have en...
The Stradbroke's off the menu for top sprinter Apache Cat despite his game win in the Doomben 10,000. Trainer Greg Eurell says Apache Cat is badly handicapped in the Stradbroke with 60kgs and his p...
Lee Freedman is mapping out an ambitious campaign for dual Group-placed filly Impulsive Dream who he believes can measure up to the AJC Australian Oaks once she launches her autumn campaign at Sand...
Trainer Richard Gibson missed out in the Derby on Sunday but his underrated Wayfoong Express gets a chance to give him a consolation in the wide open feature at Happy Valley tonight, the Indian ...
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...
Trainer Stephen Farley hasn't lost faith in Sincero's ability to run a strong 2000 metres despite his indifferent carnival form in Melbourne.The dual Group One winner was stretched beyond a mile fo...
The draw for any invitation jockeys' series holds the key to finding the winner and few riders in the history of the Longines International Jockeys' Championship have been handed a better line-up t...
Shane Dye will ride exciting frontrunner Keen Commander in his Melbourne campaign with trainer Denise McGrath sticking solid with the international jockey.McGrath, who said Keen Commander would hea...