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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 ...
The big battle...There are 15 runners in Wed's Geelong Cup but only Once Were Wild (15th in order) and the imported French horse Americain (23rd) are already assured of a Melbourne Cup start. A win...
French galloper Dunaden has rocketed to the 2nd line of betting for the Melbourne Cup after winning today's Geelong Cup, according to TAB Sportsbet. He was a $21 chance pre-race but is now into $9....
French stayer Brigantin will run in the 2400m Geelong Cup at his first start in Australia. Racing Victoria's international recruitment consultant, Leigh Jordon, says Brigantin's trainer Andre Fabre...
Tanby has opened favorite at $3.50 over French-trained galloper Dunaden $4.60 in Wed's 2400m Geelong Cup. Bauer, winner of the 2008 Geelong Cup, has attracted some early interest at $5.50. Americai...
VICTORIA'S three biggest provincial cities could all play crucial roles in spring carnivals with the possibility that the Bendigo and Ballarat cups could join the Geelong Cup as feeder races to the...
GATEWOOD will attempt to become the fourth horse in 11 years to complete the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double when he heads to Flemington in 12 days after sprinting to victory in yesterday's group ...
Godolphin is likely to have two runners in the Melbourne Cup...Kirklees and Crime Scene, who ran 6th in Wed's Geelong Cup 2400m. Godolphin rep Diana Cooper says Crime Scene had shown he was in good...
When it comes to predicting the Melbourne Cup winner, it's hard to go past the Geelong Cup.Where previously the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double had been an impossible dream, the Europeans have for...
Can Bossy's big-race magic make the difference? Yes, the popular 3-time Melbourne Cup winner Glen Boss has been handed the plum Geelong Cup ride on UK raider Gatewood, who was luckless in the Herbe...
Geelong Cup winner Almoonqith has been penalised 1kg for the Emirates Melbourne Cup , taking the Lindsay Park-trained entire to 28th in the order of entry. That order had to be adjusted on T...