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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 ...
Stratcombe will shoot for a winning hat-trick in Saturday's The Straight Six at Flemington after trainer Mick Price decided to keep him going for another week.Stratcombe made it back-to-back 1100m ...
A gelding operation looms for Stratcombe if he can't land his first metropolitan win or at the very least go close at Mornington on Monday.The son of 2005 Golden Slipper winner Stratum is up agains...
Reformed barrier rogue Stratcombe faces his toughest test to date when he tries to complete a winning hat-trick in the Thoroughbred Club Cup at Caulfield.The Stratum four-year-old, a $200,000 Gold ...
Stratcombe will continue his racing career as a colt after he scored the most impressive win of Monday's Mornington meeting."He stays an entire. He's a horse to follow," trainer Mick Price said.Pri...
Controversial apprentice Jason Maskiell is set to join trainer Robert Smerdon at the Aquanita Racing stable. Maskiell was 'sacked' by Mick Price after a series of alcohol-related misdemeanours. Not...
Rocking Force will make his campaign swan song in the Listed Straight Six at Flemington after having his race plans switched twice in the past month.Unbeaten champion Black Caviar turned the seven-...
Trainer Mick Price is confident we'll see a big Doncaster bid by Aloha, currently at 9/1. She gets a weight drop from the 57kgs she carried in Sat's Ryder Stakes to 51kgs in the Doncaster Mile. Pr...
It's Cystic Fibrosis Summer Race Day at Caulfield on Saturday and local trainer Peter Moody looks set for a big day with a classy list of 12 nominations.After a relatively quiet Spring Racing Carni...
Trainer Gai Waterhouse is giving top Melbourne apprentice Brenton Avdulla his big chance to become a star in Sydney. He'll replace stable apprentice Daniel Ganderton, whose spring carnival is over ...