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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 ...
Trainers of the superstars seem happy after the Turnbull Stakes showdown...Mark Kavanagh was saying nothing negative about Shocking's effort for 2nd to the old warrior Zipping. It was the first tim...
Can Maluckyday win the Melbourne Cup? Well, take a look at the preview of the big race in the latest August issue of PPM. Myself and The Optimist discuss all the major chances and hand out our best...
Are you ready for the jockey's tip? Stathi Katsidis says his mount Shoot Out has the measure of rivals in Sat's $1 million Magic Millions 3YO Trophy. However, he's a tad worried about the short Gol...
From NEIL FRANKLYNSMOKIN GUN3g : C Thornton : Cambridge6 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1600mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : Dead Promising miler who rewarded his army of suppo...
Fairytale filly Miracles Of Life arrived in Melbourne on Friday after an uneventful float trip from Adelaide. Trainer Daniel Clarken told Racing Network the trip across was quiet and the Blue Dia...
The whip rules controversy is moving swiftly to crisis point...A number of well-known jockeys are pressing for industrial action. The jockeys want the poorly-framed new rules to be thrown out. They...
Will So You Think slug it out against Frankel in the Eclipse Stks at Sandown UK on Saturday? Probably not. The Frankel mob seem very unenthusiastic about running the superstar beyond 1600m - and th...
This will be some battle...Tony Noonan's top mare Ortensia is likely to take on horse-of-the-year Typhoon Tracy in the Grp 2 Australia Stakes under lights at Moonee Valley on Friday. The 5YO has be...