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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 ...
A quiet build-up to Saturday's Group Two Royal Sovereign Stakes at Randwick has Delago Bolt exactly where trainer Gary Portelli wants the colt mentally.Delago Bolt is racing first-up in the 1200-me...
Delago Bolt's optimum distance will become clearer to trainer Gary Portelli after the Caulfield Guineas Prelude.Portelli said the colt had reached a fork in the road ahead of Saturday's Group Three...
Sydney colt Delago Bolt will have his first gallop up the straight at Flemington on Tuesday as he prepares for Saturday's star-studded Group Two Danehill Stakes.Trainer Gary Portelli is hoping the ...
The Golden Slipper hopes of Delago Bolt go on the line in the Black Opal Stakes with the colt's trainer Gary Portelli aiming for his third win in the Canberra feature.Portelli won the 1200m Listed ...
Trainer Gary Portelli is banking on a good barrier draw to give Delago Bolt even half a chance in Saturday's Golden Slipper.While trying not to be pessimistic, Portelli says he is realistic about t...
Trainer Gary Portelli has every reason to be confident about Delago Bolt tackling the likes of Manhattan Rain and Black Caviar in the Danehill Stakes after watching him in a jumpout at Flemington.A...