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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 legal time bomb ticks away...Danny Nikolic must wait until at least the end of month to find out if his appeal against a two-year disqualification for misconduct is successful after Victorian C...
Speed bomb Lucky Quality threw down the gauntlet to his rivals on Sunday with another dazzling all-weather trial performance last Tuesday. The brilliant son of Elusive Quality arrogantly won the op...
Three-year-old First Command may have only held the track record at Sandown for barely three minutes but trainer Lee Freedman was still predicting an exciting future for the gelding.Officials initi...
Considering the turmoil that Queensland Racing finds itself in during its biggest week, it is not surprising that there will be some anxiety in the Victorian thoroughbred industry about what impli...
High profile Hong Kong Jockey Club Chief Executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges is a step closer to securing Australia’s most prized race, the $6.2m Emirates Melbourne Cup...
Dwayne Dunn has maintained his unbeaten record for Randwick trainer Grahame Begg with a ground saving ride aboard Palacio De Cristal to win the Group Two Blazer Stakes at Flemington.Dunn was having...
If Our Billy Blue was a human being, Paul Cave says he would be the class clown.But the trainer is hoping the application of a one-eyed blinker for the first time at Canterbury on Wednesday can swi...
Goodwood Cup winner Brown Panther is Melbourne Cup bound. The 5YO, bred and part-owned by former England soccer star Michael Owen, ran out an impressive winner of the 2-mile Goodwood Cup.
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