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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 ...
So tiresome...The antics of the Lloyd Williams operation are becoming a bit of a bore. And an embarrassment. Gagging jockey Michael Rodd after the win of Zipping in the Sandown Classic, and the dec...
The daily debacle continues at the new Racing Network website...The service is slow and mostly unreliable and it doesn't seem to be getting any better as the weeks go by. Users are constantly getti...
John Moore's boom horse, Happy Zero, returned from his summer break in Sunday's Sha Tin Sprint Trophy with a last-to-first win and a message for the established top sprinters that there is a new ki...
Poor Judge won't be heading to Sydney for the spring even though his trainer Norm Hilton is confident the Toowoomba sprinter can pass a distance test at Doomben.Poor Judge will be stepping up in di...
Few punters would argue against the statement that says staking is MORE important than selection in the battle to win at horse-racing. Some might say that both are equally important. I tend to di...
Eagle Falls will defend his Oakleigh Plate crown after posting his first win since last year's feature in the Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer David Hayes expected an improved performance from t...
What a cracker for Christmas! PPD Club members for the right message from chief form analyst Brian Blackwell on Friday - the amazing BB tipped last-race Cranbourne winner BON ROCKET $7.90/$...
SEVERAL prominent Newcastle racing personalities have been caught up in a police investigation into the sending of pornography to the phone belonging to the wife of top jockey Dale Spriggs, reports...
More Joyous stole the limelight from Melito the last time they went to Rosehill for all the wrong reasons.The Golden Slipper favourite put on a rodeo exhibition at the start of the race and while a...
Trainer Wendy Roche is looking forward to a clean slate with renowned barrier rogue Here De Angels who is being readied for a first up tilt at the Carrington Stakes.Roche has only trained the geldi...