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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 ...
Ask any serious punter about the virtues of place betting and you will realise it would have been a good idea to bring a chair with you. And a packed lunch as well, with a thermos of coffee. This...
A question that pops up repeatedly is whether it’s better to bet for a win, a place or each way. I decided some years ago that place betting was not profitable. At least, not when I used my own ...
There are many punters vehemently opposed to place betting. There are others who can't get enough of it. The latter group, I suspect, is made up of those punters who like to get regular returns on...
Early betting action on Saturday's big races (from TAB Sportsbet)RANDWICKT.J. SMITH STAKESMaster Of Design $71 - $51 ($500 @ $71, $500 @ $61,$1500 @ $15 & $500 @ $13 place only) SIRES PRODUCE All T...
Early betting moves for Randwick on Saturday (from TAB Sportsbet):RACE MOVER 1 Howdiddydoit $7.50-$5 ($2,000 e/w @ $7.50, $2,000 @ $6)2 Nil3 Rarefied $6-$4.80 ($2,000 @ $6), Delago Bolt $17-$13 ($1...
The success, or failure, of Sydney's big bookie breakthrough could determine the ultimate future of our bagmen. If the idea doesn't work, you can start the countdown for the exodus of bookies from...
Do race favourites and place betting go together? The answer is YES and NO and MAYBE. On the “yes” side there’s the prospect of a 60 to 70 per cent strike rate, on the “no” side there’s the prosp...
My Bentley is fav at $4.40 in a wide-open betting battle in Wed's Bendigo Cup, according to the latest market from TAB Sportsbet.MY BENTLEY 4.40 MUIR 6.50 DREAM PEDLAR 6.50 VALDEMORO 8.00 ZAUBERIN ...