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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 ...
Anger mounts...Trainers will demand the VRC employ security staff to protect horses at future music festivals planned for Flemington in the wake of the Australia Day break-ins. A Flemington-based t...
Leading jumps trainer Chris Hyland is preparing for the worst even if authorities allow the sport to continue this winter.The Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) Board will meet on Wednesday after which ...
GAI Waterhouse's Randwick stables are down on numbers with as many as 30 boxes empty, causing Sydney's highest-profile trainer to cut staff, reports The Age. It says: The Smith-Waterhouse stable ha...
The Victorian government has accepted the controversial decision by Racing Victoria Ltd to leave the door open for jumps racing just seven weeks after sounding the sport's death knell.The RVL board...
Trainer Robbie Laing yesterday pleaded with racing officials to take direction from jumps racing's leading participants to ensure the sport survives beyond 2010, reports The Age.It says: Laing, the...
A horse fatality has marred the start to the Victorian jumps season at Warrnambool.Five-year-old Casa Boy was put down after he crashed heavily in the Ace Radio Maiden Hurdle (3224m) at his second ...