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A total of 47 horses remain in contention for a start in Tuesday week’s $6 million Group I Melbourne Cup after the second declarations closed on Monday. Click here to view the 47 second declarations for the 2013 Melbourne Cup.
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...
A total of 14 internationally-trained horses remain in contention for the $6 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) after first acceptances. The internation...
Second declarations closed today (Tuesday) for the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate. Both races have more entries remaining than last year, with the Ca...
A total of 40 horses remain in contention for a start in tomorrow week’s $6.2 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) following today’s closure of second a...
Race 7 - Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200 METRES)Of $6,000,000.1st $3,600,000, 2nd $900,000, 3rd $450,000, 4th $250,000, 5th $175,000, 6th $125,000, 7t...
The Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) lost none of its headline acts when first acceptances were taken at noon on Tuesday for Australia’s most famou...
Major international contenders are among 80 horses left in 2012 Caulfield Cup contention after Tuesday's second acceptances for the October 20 race...
No real surprises in the list of horses who have dropped out of the Melbourne Cup...As expected, Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker has been withdrawn ...
Third Decs are out - and there are still 47 horses trying to fit into the final Melbourne Cup field of 24. Eleven internationals remain in contenti...
Even though it is still six months away, the Emirates Melbourne Cup market has had a significant price mover following Saturday’s racing. L...
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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 total of 14 internationally-trained horses remain in contention for the $6 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) after first acceptances. The international acceptors represent the UK, France and Hong Kon...
Second declarations closed today (Tuesday) for the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate. Both races have more entries remaining than last year, with the Caulfield Cup having 78 left, including 11 internati...
A total of 40 horses remain in contention for a start in tomorrow week’s $6.2 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) following today’s closure of second acceptances. Heading the list is Japan’s Crown Gol...
Race 7 - Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200 METRES)Of $6,000,000.1st $3,600,000, 2nd $900,000, 3rd $450,000, 4th $250,000, 5th $175,000, 6th $125,000, 7th $125,000, 8th $125,000, 9th $125,000, 10th $125,...
The Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) lost none of its headline acts when first acceptances were taken at noon on Tuesday for Australia’s most famous race. A total of 72 horses remain in contention ...
Major international contenders are among 80 horses left in 2012 Caulfield Cup contention after Tuesday's second acceptances for the October 20 race. Dunaden and Americain are in quarantine awaiting...
No real surprises in the list of horses who have dropped out of the Melbourne Cup...As expected, Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker has been withdrawn along with injured stars Descarado, December Draw ...
Third Decs are out - and there are still 47 horses trying to fit into the final Melbourne Cup field of 24. Eleven internationals remain in contention for the big race.1 Above Average (IRE) (Lee Fre...
Even though it is still six months away, the Emirates Melbourne Cup market has had a significant price mover following Saturday’s racing. La Amistad, a half-sister to three-time Melbourne C...