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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 ...
West Australian sprinter Scenic Blast is Australia's top-rated racehorse according to the authoritative International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IHFA).The Danny Morton-trained four-year...
Star Queensland sprinter Buffering sent a chilling warning to his Group One BTC Cup rivals with a slashing seven-length victory in the Coca-Cola Amatil Handicap at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Buffering...
SHAMEXPRESS ($7.50) is a popular pick to win the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on Day One of the Royal Ascot carnival....
Every Race Tells a Tale.áI was surprised by the failures of both the fillies I was hoping to learn from yesterday (see the previous posting). La Etoile was cluttered away and it was an odd ride, wh...
The 2011 Chipping Norton Stakes signalled a turning point in Sacred Choice's autumn preparation and trainer Joe Pride expects the same this time around.After a couple of moderate runs, the blinkers...
A major part of Anthony Cummings' philosophy in training racehorses is to ensure the viability of colts and fillies when their racing careers are over.Galaxy contender Duporth is a case in point an...
The Jockey Club may have as many as five foreign horses contesting the three Cathay Pacific International Trial events next month with four invitations having already been issued. The Sprint Trial ...
New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...