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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 ...
With winter upon us, and wet tracks prevalent in many areas of Australia, PPM's Martin Dowling takes a look at the problems and pitfalls of punting when the going is rain-affected. Most top prof...
David Payne has mixed feelings but high hopes about his stable's runners on wet tracks in Sydney and Brisbane this week.Big Red Cat heads to Canterbury on Wednesday having won on a heavy track at W...
RACING NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy admitted the Sydney spring carnival will be held on sub-standard surfaces with the ''very wet winter'' taking its toll on all metropolitan tracks, reports the S...
Mr Incredible is likely to be Guy Walter's only runner at Randwick with the trainer juggling the programs of Raheights, Royal Rock and Kylie to avoid wet tracks.Raheights and Royal Rock are almost ...
Only a few years ago it was often a difficult, if not impossible, task for punters to determine whether certain horses could handle rain-affected ground. There was a virtual reliance on the 'w' an...
Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...
In this special feature, Melbourne writer Paul Segar takes an in-depth look at winter racing, delving into wet-track speed factors, how varying track ratings affect performances and how weight-car...
Caulfield trainer Byron Cozamanis is looking forward to getting his lightly-raced three-year-old Repousser back on to firmer tracks and with that in mind he has scratched the son of Choisir from t...