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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 ...
Just what the game doesn't need...The ABC reports that police are investigating a string of top Australian horse racing figures, including jockey Danny Nikolic, for alleged race fixing, in what is ...
I was going to follow up my trainer blog tomorrow, or even Saturday morning, but as I will be chauffering a punting mate from Queensland this weekend and time may be an issue I thought I would have...
In a previous article I detailed a study of the top rated selections of the weekend racing paper The Wizard covering the spring racing period from September 3 to November 19 last year, over 12 Sat...
Encouraging statistics for stablemates Lebrechaun and Unanimously have young trainer Matthew Dale chasing his first city double on Saturday.Stakeswinner Lebrechaun takes a strong second-up record i...
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Pensioner PlanFor the time being I will no longer be supplying the Pensioner Plan selections as the plan reached 500 selections last week and it is now time to perform some serious analysis on the ...
It is time the Australian Racing Board (ARB) and the handicappers settled on some sort of symmetry between the allotted weights and the Handicapper Rating figures.This Saturday in the 3yo Open 2000...
My revision of the Plan A selections of the Pensioner Plan is complete. As you will be aware I logged 500 selections of the original "wildcat" selections and at the end of the record keeping to say...
Sparks flew and top jockeys Tye Angland and Olivier Doleuze all but came to blows in the weighing room at Sha Tin after a humble Class Three that turned into the race of the week, complete with t...
Without a key horse, or horses, don't play the trifecta!" This advice is handed down by the noted US expert, and PPM contributor, Barry Meadow in his widely acclaimed book, Money Secrets At The Ra...