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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 ...
Australians this morning awoke to the news of international triumph following the successful Dubai debut of former Peter Snowden-trained sprinter Mental.The son of Lonhro won the AU$193,000 Group 3...
Trainer Peter Moody is talking of a Dubai start for Black Caviar after the filly's slick win in the Grp 2 Australia Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. BC strolled home over Here de Angels and Moody r...
The team behind the spring cups bid of English contender Mad Rush have likened the stayer to last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Purple Moon.Francesca Cumani said Mad Rush, trained by her father Lu...
WHILE his comrades, Gai Waterhouse and Chris Waller, enjoy the fruits of success provided by European horses imported to Australia, trainer Peter Snowden found himself yet again on the wrong end of...
He may not be a true-blue local yet but connections were celebrating
Day one of The Championships may have been postponed 48 hours to Easter Monday due to wet weather on Saturday, but it was worth the wait for the 11,576 punters on course and those watching around ...
I must admit to having a real soft spot for the old warriors of horseracing that front up week after week trying their best to win a race for their owners and us punters. Within the space of about ...
William Buick has continued his fairytale first season as stable jockey to John Gosden by steering Arctic Cosmos to victory in the English St Leger.The Norwegian-born Buick added the world's oldest...
Kim Craft looks certain to head to Sydney with Lucky Dubai after the sprinter ended the stable's city drought at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Lucky Dubai got up in the last bound to edge out topweight Fe...
A late change of training plans for English Melbourne Cup hope Mad Rush should be seen as a sign of the horse's good health and fitness, according to his trainer.Mad Rush had been scheduled to trav...