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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 boar...
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 Practi...
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"...
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....
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. Wri...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writin...
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 ...
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...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finishe...
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 S...
THE $150,000 Melbourne Cup trophy is going on a marathon around-the-world trip in the build-up to the 150th running of the race on November 2, repo...
Gai Waterhouse is preparing to take her biggest team to a Melbourne spring carnival on the back of Descarado's Cup success at Caulfield last year.L...
THE 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Efficient will have to earn his way into the field for November's 150th running despite changes to conditions for the...
Chris Waller will make third declaration payments for three stayers in the Caulfield Cup but he is leaning towards having only one runner - Metropo...
Durable mare Hoorang's Melbourne Cup campaign has received a boost with her win over a handy field at Hastings.Her trainer, Wanganui vet Ian Shaw, ...
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Victoria will pull out all the stops to celebrate the Melbourne Cup in 2010, the 150th anniversary of the iconic race.A huge calendar of events has...
The strappers arrived at the stable in a limousine having travelled from England with their horses in a private plane.The mighty Godolphin racing c...
Trainer Rob Heathcote has had a change of mind and will consider adding Work The Room to his Melbourne spring carnival team if the six-year-old is ...
Early reports were all positive that the first intake of international horses for the spring carnival all travelled well, reports Racing Network....
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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 $150,000 Melbourne Cup trophy is going on a marathon around-the-world trip in the build-up to the 150th running of the race on November 2, reports The Age.It says: The Victoria Racing Club yest...
Gai Waterhouse is preparing to take her biggest team to a Melbourne spring carnival on the back of Descarado's Cup success at Caulfield last year.Leading the charge for the Waterhouse team will be ...
THE 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Efficient will have to earn his way into the field for November's 150th running despite changes to conditions for the race announced yesterday by the Victoria Racing C...
Chris Waller will make third declaration payments for three stayers in the Caulfield Cup but he is leaning towards having only one runner - Metropolitan runner-up Hawk Island."At this stage Hawk Is...
Durable mare Hoorang's Melbourne Cup campaign has received a boost with her win over a handy field at Hastings.Her trainer, Wanganui vet Ian Shaw, was inquiring into bookings to Melbourne on Sunday...
Victoria will pull out all the stops to celebrate the Melbourne Cup in 2010, the 150th anniversary of the iconic race.A huge calendar of events has been planned including a heritage trail and walk ...
The strappers arrived at the stable in a limousine having travelled from England with their horses in a private plane.The mighty Godolphin racing corporation made its stylish, almost annual reappea...
Trainer Rob Heathcote has had a change of mind and will consider adding Work The Room to his Melbourne spring carnival team if the six-year-old is successful at Doomben on Saturday.The former Victo...
Early reports were all positive that the first intake of international horses for the spring carnival all travelled well, reports Racing Network. Racing Victoria’s international consultant Leigh...