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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 ...
Chris Waller is known for his domination of Sydney's staying races but the premier trainer could find himself without a runner in the Group Three Summer Cup.Strike One needs to prove himself in a b...
Gerald Ryan is hoping to see a more tractable Road To Summer when the colt races in stakes company for the first time at Randwick on Saturday.An impressive debut winner at Warwick Farm last month, ...
There are big concerns about Sydney racing...Not that we haven't known for a long time that Sydney racing, and officialdom, is on the nose. In the Sydney Morning Herald, Chris Roots says: 'There wa...
A feature race win in Monday's Summer Cup would be a timely boost for jockey Jim Cassidy as he looks to get his momentum rolling.Cassidy only returned from a five-week suspension for whip offences ...
Apprentice Daniel Ganderton has an excellent chance to post his first major win in Sydney - but not for his boss Gai Waterhouse.Bart Cummings has engaged Ganderton for leading Summer Cup candidate ...
Former New Zealander Tariki has convinced trainer Robert Bradshaw he is up to a trip to Sydney for the Summer Cup.Tariki proved his last start win at Doomben on November 8 was no fluke with a comma...
So used to seeing Chris Waller dominate the staying races in Sydney with his imports, it was no surprise to see another import capture Saturday's $125,000 Grp 3 Schweppes Summer Cup (2400m) at Rose...
Staying mare Dream Gal has convinced trainer Barry Baldwin she is worthy of a trip to Sydney for the The Group Three Summer Cup at Randwick on Boxing Day.Dream Gal stormed home from back in the fie...
ALREADY riding the crest of a winning wave, Rosehill trainer Tim Martin is out to snare more Christmas riches at Randwick on Saturday when Scouting Wide lines up in the Summer Cup, reports the Sydn...