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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 ...
Jockey Michael Rodd will reunite with Sydney sprinter Gold Trail in his bid to plunder Saturday's $NZ1 million Telegraph Handicap in New Zealand.The Gary Portelli-trained speedster will be chasing ...
Star jockey Michael Rodd will partner Gold Trail in his two-race Group One campaign in New Zealand next month.Trainer Gary Portelli confirmed that Rodd would be aboard Gold Trail for his upcoming 1...
Sydney sprinter Gold Trail's Group One win at Ellerslie has failed to convince New Zealand punters he can repeat the dose later this month.The NZ TAB has Gold Trail on the fourth line of betting fo...
Group One-winning sprinter Gold Trail will round off his preparation for Singapore's KrisFlyer Sprint with a barrier trial hitout at Warwick Farm on Friday.The gelding will then travel to Melbourne...
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