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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 ...
Last month I talked about ways and means of studying the form in greyhound races and put forward some ideas to help the form student come to grips with the intricacies of the formlines. I outline...
I’ve talked in recent issues about factors of form in greyhound racing. Last month, I explained how easy it is to use a simple formula to find your selections. In this article, I intend to go over...
Any punter wishing to bring a sense of regulation to his selection activities could do worse than draw up a simple points-rating plan. Yes, that's what I said – a simple points-rating plan. Nothin...
If you're like most punters, you find it terribly hard getting your form facts and figures into some sort of order. It's all very well to study the form and jot down remarks at the side of the ne...
When we talk about the steps to take in greyhound racing form analysis, what do we really mean? Well, to my way of thinking, we're talking about factors ... the main factors that affect the outcom...
Trots fans, especially those who bet big on the pacers and trotters, will testify that a good driver is worth a great deal in a tight finish, or in a race where tactics play a key role. Many and ...
What is Form? Simply put it's the record of a horse's past performances and it is your truest and most reliable guide to the horse's ability. Therefore, we must take great note of Form. And espe...
They say there's no value in place betting and that you can't make a profit long term. Well, that's what THEY say and they're entitled to their opinion (whoever THEY are). But the reality is som...
French pair Dunaden and Americain, set to embark on their second and third Spring Carnival campaigns respectively, head Caulfield Cup weights, which were announced by Racing Victoria General Manage...
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