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Queensland jockey Desiree Gill has died from injuries sustained in a race fall on the Sunshine Coast. She was taken to Nambour Hospital on Saturday night in a critical condition and died on Sunday morning. The 45-year-old was an experienced rider who had spent 30 years in the industry.
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...
TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes on Saturday . “This could be the...
Samaready remains a dominant favourite for Saturday's Blue Diamond Stakes after coming up with barrier eight at Tuesday's draw.The Mick Price-train...
A capacity field of 20 will line-up in Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide. When the field was finalised tod...
Big support for Sacred Elixir continues with 50% of the TAB market now on the NZ gelding to win the Victoria Derby 2500m at Flemington. The mo...
Sacred Elixir’s Barrier 1 draw hasn’t stopped punters from backing it to win the Victoria Derby, firming from $3.20 to $2.80 with TAB. While ove...
Deep Field lost his unbeaten record at his sixth start and first run at Group 1 level in Saturday’s $500,000 Lightning Stakes (1000m) with co-trai...
A Group One victory and a saloon passage into the Doncaster Mile are the two carrots for star on the rise Niagara at Rosehill on Saturday.Niagara r...
Jockey Mark Pegus has dismissed an awkward barrier draw as a hindrance to the winning chances of Gold Salute in the Toorak Handicap.The in-form six...
Expectations will be running high when well-bred colt Coubertin makes his race debut at Ballarat on Thursday.The Tony Vasil-trained colt is by Redo...
Trainer Rodney Douglas and owner Jonathon Munz are hoping for success in numbers with a three-horse play at Bendigo on Wednesday.Unraced two-year-o...
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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 ...
TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes on Saturday . “This could be the most highly anticipated race of the spring, any o...
Samaready remains a dominant favourite for Saturday's Blue Diamond Stakes after coming up with barrier eight at Tuesday's draw.The Mick Price-trained filly is among a full field of 16 plus four eme...
A capacity field of 20 will line-up in Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide. When the field was finalised today, the barrier draw threw up some serious ‘nastie...
Big support for Sacred Elixir continues with 50% of the TAB market now on the NZ gelding to win the Victoria Derby 2500m at Flemington. The money flood has pushed him into $2.70 - a significan...
Sacred Elixir’s Barrier 1 draw hasn’t stopped punters from backing it to win the Victoria Derby, firming from $3.20 to $2.80 with TAB. While over 40% of the market has been on the Gelding, there...
Deep Field lost his unbeaten record at his sixth start and first run at Group 1 level in Saturday’s $500,000 Lightning Stakes (1000m) with co-trainer John Hawkes saying he “simply wasn’t good enou...
A Group One victory and a saloon passage into the Doncaster Mile are the two carrots for star on the rise Niagara at Rosehill on Saturday.Niagara recorded an impressive victory in last Saturday's G...
Jockey Mark Pegus has dismissed an awkward barrier draw as a hindrance to the winning chances of Gold Salute in the Toorak Handicap.The in-form six-year-old is on a mission to set the record straig...
Expectations will be running high when well-bred colt Coubertin makes his race debut at Ballarat on Thursday.The Tony Vasil-trained colt is by Redoute's Choice from Circles Of Gold and has much to ...
Trainer Rodney Douglas and owner Jonathon Munz are hoping for success in numbers with a three-horse play at Bendigo on Wednesday.Unraced two-year-olds Kiss Of Life and Coulis will clash with stable...
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