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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 ...
Prominent syndicator Dean Watt has paid $1.8 million for an Encosta De Lago colt at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.It is the highest price so far with the market closing Monday's fir...
A daughter of super sire Zabeel has fetched the highest price for a filly of $1.3 million at this year's Australian Easter sale in Sydney.A half-sister to Group One winner Zarita, the filly was the...
Well known bloodstock agent James Bester has paid $1.2 million for a Redoute's Choice colt at the second session of the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.The colt was the only million dollar plus year...
The first filly out of champion mare Makybe Diva sold for $1.2 million on the first day of the Australian Easter Yearling Sales in Sydney on Tuesday but was surpassed as the day's top-lot by a Redo...
An Encosta De Lago colt from the family of last year's AJC Sires' Produce winner Manhattan Rain has fetched $620,000 at the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast.Gai Waterhouse, Manhattan Rain's tr...
John Singleton has paid $3.85 million for champion filly Samantha Miss at the William Inglis Easter Broodmare sale in Sydney, the second highest price for a thoroughbred at public auction in the so...