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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 ...
The great UK Grand National Steeplechase is on at Aintree on Saturday and TAB Sportsbet has come up with an early market.UK GRAND NATIONAL EARLY MARKETTHE MIDNIGHT CLUB 10.00 3.25 OSCAR TIME 12.00 ...
Aussie jumper Ginolad has donkey-licked three rivals at his UK debut run over 3800m at Fontwell Park. Ginolad was sent out an odds-on fav. He went to the front early on and gradually drew away for ...
Black Caviar is among 57 nominations for the Grp 1 July Cup (1200m) at Newmarket UK, which may be the second target of her UK campaign. The champ sprinter goes to England in early June to run in th...
Our UK tipping service is becoming increasingly popular - and no wonder! Our two form analysts in the UK, Adrian Middleton and Simon Hall, are usually spot-on with their 'best bet' assessments. You...
Britain's usually one-eyed racing scribes can't get Frankel out of their collective minds and seem deaf to any constructive criticism about the superstar - but now one of them, Steve Mellish in the...
UK trainer Venetia Williams' Herefordshire stable has welcomed Australian chaser Ginolad, whose last run saw him finish sixth in the rich Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan. In Australia, nine-year-old G...
Good to see Sth Aussie champ Clare Lindop riding successfully in the UK. Last Saturday, she scored a 1.5 lengths win aboard the Jeremy Gask trained Ivory Silk 9/2 in a 1200m sprint at Newmarket. Cl...
Welcome back...Former champion Sydney trainer from the 1980s, Brian Mayfield-Smith is making another comeback after retiring a couple of years ago. He'll run a small team from his property in the ...
Clare Lindop's great UK adventure is going well...She rode a winner and a 2nd at her first two rides at Haydock Park last Saturday and she's picked up 3 rides at the Doncaster meeting on Friday. Tw...
Apprentice Tim Bell's appeal against a careless riding suspension will be heard on Thursday. Bell is appealing his conviction and severity of suspension. He was suspended from Jan 2 through to Jan...
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