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Ortensia will return to Sydney with the TJ Smith as her main target after her Oakleigh Plate failure. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia has emerged OK from her 11th behind Mrs Onassis. Messara says Ortensia has been at her best when with clear room - and this never happened in the Oakleigh Plate. "I just think she might have needed the run to mentally get back into the game again," he says.Don't expect Miracles of Life to chase the Golden Slipper after her Blue Diamond triumph. Traine
Ortensia will return to Sydney with the TJ Smith as her main target after her Oakleigh Plate failure. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia has emerged OK from her 11th behind Mrs Onassis. Messara says Ortensia has been at her best when with clear room - and this never happened in the Oakleigh Plate. "I just think she might have needed the run to mentally get back into the game again," he says.
Don't expect Miracles of Life to chase the Golden Slipper after her Blue Diamond triumph. Trainer Daniel Clarken is not keen on pushing the filly any further this time in. Another issue is that connections will have to pay a $150,000 late entry fee for the Slipper.
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...
Aussie mare Ortensia flopped in the Haydock Sprint 1400m in the UK overnight but there was an excuse. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia suffered a...
Millionaire filly Eloping will undergo a battery of tests following her failure in Saturday’s $200,000 Group 2 Rubtion Stakes (1100m), reports Ra...
That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But m...
Shellscrape travels to Melbourne this week for the Oakleigh Plate having fully recovered from a foot abscess which delayed the start of his autumn ...
Race 8 - 4:40PM Sportingbet Oakleigh Plate (1100 METRES)Of $400,000.1st $240,000, 2nd $72,000, 3rd $36,000, 4th $18,000, 5th $10,000, 6th $8,000, 7...
Peter Moody is looking good for a clean sweep of Melbourne's feature autumn sprints with as many as five runners in the Oakleigh Plate.Still on a h...
Ortensia returns to Randwick on Saturday for the Galaxy and this time trainer Tony Noonan is determined to take the Group One sprint trophy home to...
After his huge run for 3rd in the Doomben 10,000, All Silent has hit favoritism at $4.50 (7/2) for the Stradbroke Hdcp 1400m next month. TAB Sports...
Top Qld sprinter Woorim is working well for a first-up defence of his title in the $400,000 Grp 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Feb 23, ac...
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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 ...
Aussie mare Ortensia flopped in the Haydock Sprint 1400m in the UK overnight but there was an excuse. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia suffered a nasty inch-long cut to her right fetlock during t...
Millionaire filly Eloping will undergo a battery of tests following her failure in Saturday’s $200,000 Group 2 Rubtion Stakes (1100m), reports Racing Victoria. The Peter Morgan and Craig Widdis...
That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...
Shellscrape travels to Melbourne this week for the Oakleigh Plate having fully recovered from a foot abscess which delayed the start of his autumn campaign.The Galaxy winner was due to return in th...
Race 8 - 4:40PM Sportingbet Oakleigh Plate (1100 METRES)Of $400,000.1st $240,000, 2nd $72,000, 3rd $36,000, 4th $18,000, 5th $10,000, 6th $8,000, 7th $8,000, 8th $8,000 GROUP 1Handicap, Minimum Wei...
Peter Moody is looking good for a clean sweep of Melbourne's feature autumn sprints with as many as five runners in the Oakleigh Plate.Still on a high after the astonishing victory of unbeaten mare...
Ortensia returns to Randwick on Saturday for the Galaxy and this time trainer Tony Noonan is determined to take the Group One sprint trophy home to Melbourne.He and owner Alistair Fraser had their ...
After his huge run for 3rd in the Doomben 10,000, All Silent has hit favoritism at $4.50 (7/2) for the Stradbroke Hdcp 1400m next month. TAB Sportsbet has Ortensia on the second line at $6.00,follo...
Top Qld sprinter Woorim is working well for a first-up defence of his title in the $400,000 Grp 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Feb 23, according to trainer Robert Heathcote. The 7YO son o...