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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 ...
Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...
Fingers crossed for popular jockey Patrick Ferris, seriously injured in a race fall at Muswellbrook on Monday. PF fell from his mount Neigh Then and was galloped on. Still unconscious, he was take...
Jockey Paul Goode has undergone surgery in Sydney for spinal injuries suffered in a fall at Queanbeyan.Goode was taken to Canberra Hospital after Monday's fall before being transported to Sydney by...
Jockey Tye Angland will return to Hong Kong this weekend in the hope of resuming riding early next month....The former champion Sydney apprentice has been at home recovering from injuries sustained...
Racing Victoria stewards have suspended apprentice Jack Hill for 20 meetings for careless riding in a race at Flemington on May 7 which saw fellow apprentice Jake Noonan dislodged in a fall, sustai...
The official findings into the race fall that left jockey Danny Brereton with spinal injuries concluded yesterday when Mark Zahra was found guilty of careless riding and suspended until January 1, ...
Veteran jockey Darren Gauci was taken to Bendigo Hospital for x-rays after a fall from Royal Mephisto in the Showcase 0-64 Handicap today at Bendigo. Paramedics had concerns over Gauci's swollen ...
Taking the fall...UK raider Illustrious Blue is reportedly back on target for the Melbourne Cup after a trouble-free exercise session on Tuesday, 24 hours after he slipped up and fell, rolling over...
Top apprentice Daniel Ganderton will be off the riding scne for some time after a bad race fall at Newcastle. He's in John Hunter Hospital and has a suspected broken left leg. DG had a string of go...