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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 ...
One punter has ignored barrier statistics on the Blue Diamond Stakes and backed the Tony Vasil-trained filly Psychologist to win $140,000 in Saturday's $1 million Group One feature at Caulfield.Des...
Tony Vasil doesn't normally throw his horses in at the deep end but it was easy to see why he ran two-year-old filly Psychologist on debut in the Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield.The Choisir filly...
THE spat between Sydney jockey Jim Cassidy and Melbourne trainer Tony Vasil continued yesterday, with Vasil fined $500 for improper conduct towards the jockey, reports The Age newspaper.It says: Va...
Wags are suggesting trainer Tony Vasil lose some weight and return to being a jockey. They say it's the only way he will have his horses ridden the way he wants. Vasil copped a $500 fine for a heat...
Tony Vasil wasn't happy with Jim Cassidy's tearaway ride on Psychologist in Sat's Magic Night. Nor were a lot of punters. Stewards didn't seem too impressed, either. They've adjourned an inquiry in...
Valdemoro's graduation from multiple placegetter to winner of her past two starts has her on track for a rematch with Faint Perfume in the AJC Australian Oaks.The Tony Vasil-trained Valdemoro ran s...
Beneteau remains fav at $3.60 for the Grp 1 Blue Diamond Stakes following Saturday's racing. The TAB Sportsbet market:B LUE DIAMOND STAKESBENETEAU 3.60 1.61 PSYCHOLOGIST 4.40 1.80 STAR WITNESS 7.00...
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn is excited about resuming his career after a long absence due to a disqualification over a betting scandal and a broken leg.Shinn will have his first ride b...