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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 ...
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Racing Victoria (RV) and the Ballarat Turf Club (BTC) have are delaying the return of racing at Sportsbet-Ballarat until spring. The delay means the transfer of four race meetings. The decision ...
Racing Victoria (RV) has released the framework for its 2012-13 racing calendar which will feature 576 race meetings across the state from 1 August to 31 July.The annual meeting total represents an...
If you backed Happy Glen at Moonee Valley on Saturday and wondered why the 6YO failed...Well, trainer Robbie Griffiths has advised stewards that Happy Glen was found to be lame in the off hind leg....
Tough call for Craig Williams...Stewards poured cold water on his otherwise successful day at Sandown Lakeside - suspending him for seven meetings on a careless riding charge. Williams pleaded guil...
Ciaron Maher has outlined his plans for his quality team of middle-distance gallopers. The exciting Akavoroun , beaten only twice in eight starts, will now go to the Group 1 $400,000 Rupert Clark...
The fate of Sydney's showcase spring carnival meeting on October 1 will be announced on Friday amid concerns over the safety of one of the main grandstands at Randwick.Corrosion in structural steel...
Promising filly Sussuro will be out to improve her chances of gaining a start in the Group One Thousand Guineas by winning at Caulfield on Sunday.Sussuro was having only her second race start, afte...
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