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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 ...
HALL of Fame trainer David Hayes believes the current whip riding rules allows "cheats to prosper'' and urged the Australian Racing Board to reconsider its position on the contentious issue, report...
Trainer Tony Gollan believes his decision to bypass the Group Two Sires' Produce Stakes with talented colt Temple Of Boom will be vindicated at Doomben.Gollan planned to run Temple Of Boom in the 1...
Last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Maluckyday is out of the spring carnival because of a virus.Maluckyday was rated one of the leading chances for this year's $6.2 million race at Flemington on No...
David Hayes is hoping the Australian debut of German stakeswinner Budai in the Lawrence Stakes can ease the pain of a chest injury inflicted by another imported galloper.Hayes had his chest muscle ...
Toowoomba sprinter Temple Of Boom has made his second successful raid at Flemington in nine months by taking out the Group Three Aurie's Star Handicap.The five-year-old posted his first 1200-metre ...
David Hayes flew out of Melbourne early yesterday to supervise Nicconi's tilt at international glory in England later this month, but the Nicconi team will still keep an eye on the opening event at...
Toowoomba trainer Tony Gollan is unlikely to extend Spirit Of Boom's spring campaign to include the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Victoria Derby day in October.Spirit Of Boom is i...