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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 ...
A question that pops up repeatedly is whether it’s better to bet for a win, a place or each way. I decided some years ago that place betting was not profitable. At least, not when I used my own ...
I have a feeling people bet to place, or win and place, because they fear losing some or all of their money on one bet. Two related things then become apparent. These punters have a betting horiz...
Although I seldom bet on an each-way basis, I am quite a regular place-only bettor. I operate a separate bank specifically for the purpose. Quite often, via the place tote, it is possible to achi...
Aussie star All Silent is clinging to early favoritism for Sunday's big Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin in HK, according to the latest market from Betstar.com.au. It has All Silent at $4.00 with local ...
One of the great dilemmas of betting is whether to bet straight out for the win, or 'play safe' by having the same amount of money spread equally for a win and a place (each way). I get asked ofte...
In this article Neale Yardley looks at the age-old question of whether each-way betting is better or worse than win-only betting. The topic of each-way or win-versus betting has been thrashed aro...
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...