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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 'boom' on Wyong 3YO Sincero grows with each start...His Scone Guineas 1600m win has underlined his budding superstar reputation. The Stradbroke 1400m beckons, but before that he will tackle the...
THE Australian influence on this year's World Cup meeting in Dubai could be the most pronounced in years following the news that dual Cox Plate winner So You Think will be entered for the Group 1 e...
It's the Cox Plate for Stradbroke winner Sincero this spring! Trainer Steve Farley is brimming with confidence that Sincero can meet all his major challenges in the new season. He plans to start Si...
That foreign invasion for the Melbourne Cup is building up - and there'll be more news arriving this weekend. Current situation: Across Europe and Asia, 7 horses are already in quarantine and Satur...
Metal Bender looks like a class-A prospect for the Caulfield Cup for boom Sydney trainer Chris Waller. He might also be a Cox Plate chance AND a Melbourne Cup hope, though the 3200m is likely to b...
Trainer Stuart Webb reckons Yosei could be a Cox Plate prospect. He'll nominate her for the WFA classic at Moonee Valley in October though he admits that a more realistic goal will be the Grp 1 Mye...
A Doncaster Mile start only just scrapes onto the autumn radar of two-time Group One winner Sincero.Sincero is proven at weight-for-age over the Randwick mile as the winner of the George Main Stake...
DUAL Cox Plate winner So You Think remains a chance to defend his title at Moonee Valley in October, but it is more likely racing giant Coolmore will be represented by last year's Irish Derby winne...
The legend grew on Friday night when Black Caviar produced a trademark display to win the $400,000 Group 1 Hacer Group William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley. In front of a Cox Plate-sized crowd t...
Can Vision and Power win the Cox Plate? Well, trainer Joe Pride is quietly confident he'll prove a real prospect for the WFA classic. VAP is now back in work at Pride's Warwick Farm stable after a ...