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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 ...
Firmly entrenched as one of Brisbane's best young trainers, Steven O'Dea will chase another big pay day at the Gold Coast on Saturday.O'Dea trained Amber's Crown to win the $150,000 QTIS 600 Plate ...
After ruling out a Melbourne trip with Amber's Crown, trainer Steve O'Dea is hoping a gear change can help the filly rediscover her best form.O'Dea experimented with a tongue tie on the three-year-...
Trainer Steve O'Dea hopes stud failure Bianca Jewel can rediscover her early promise when the four-year-old makes her comeback at Eagle Farm.Bianca Jewel, who lines up in Saturday's Lyndhurst Stud ...
Townsville trainer Steve O'Dea could come under pressure to send talented filly Kiss Me Katy interstate for the autumn if she maintains her unblemished record at Doomben.Kiss Me Katy will line up i...
Young trainer Steven O'Dea has been a revelation since moving to Brisbane and now has his sights set on plundering Sydney's carnival riches.O'Dea will start promising filly Kiss Me Katy in the Grou...
Trainer Steve O'Dea is unlikely to risk a gear change on Queensland filly Kiss Me Katy in Saturday's Group Three Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick.Kiss Me Katy has worn blinkers her entire career bu...
Rival trainers Steve O'Dea and Brian Wakefield left Doomben on Wednesday full of optimism for the Brisbane winter carnival.O'Dea continued to make his mark among Brisbane's training ranks with his ...