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A tribute to the life and career of trainer Guy Walter. A champion trainer and a gentleman of the turf.
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...
The Group Three Celebration Cup has been the scene of some upset results and Tony Millard-trained Super Lifeline has a chance to spring one more ...
Australian bred sprinters Rocket Man and One World made history in Hong Kong on Sunday when they dead heated in the HK$3 million Jockey Club Sprint...
The Jockey Club will have to swallow the "start-of-season medicine we had to take" on opening day at Sha Tin, with all but one of Sunday's 10 races...
It may come a run too late for London China Town's supporters last start, but the smart three-year-old should put the record straight by winning th...
Sunday's meeting at Sha Tin has been cancelled due to an approaching typhoon.
Ambitious Dragon tossed aside some history in winning the Derby in March and he can repeat the dose in the HK$14 million Audemars Piguet QE II Cup ...
Trainer Tony Millard looks to have jumped straight into the bridle this season with a winner on opening day and a number of prominent finishes and...
What separates the night all-weather meetings at Sha Tin from the common garden all-weather races is the track pattern, and that should allow the S...
The Caspar Fownes-trained Thumbs Up has been one of the forgotten horses of the season, but the six-year-old gets his chance to put that right in t...
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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 ...
The Group Three Celebration Cup has been the scene of some upset results and Tony Millard-trained Super Lifeline has a chance to spring one more against the big names at Sha Tin this afternoon, r...
Australian bred sprinters Rocket Man and One World made history in Hong Kong on Sunday when they dead heated in the HK$3 million Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) HK Gr II at Sha Tin, reports Tara Madgwic...
The Jockey Club will have to swallow the "start-of-season medicine we had to take" on opening day at Sha Tin, with all but one of Sunday's 10 races undersubscribed in a sharp departure from traditi...
It may come a run too late for London China Town's supporters last start, but the smart three-year-old should put the record straight by winning the Midland Holdings Cup (1,400m) at Sha Tin today (...
Ambitious Dragon tossed aside some history in winning the Derby in March and he can repeat the dose in the HK$14 million Audemars Piguet QE II Cup at Sha Tin today. In what shapes as an all-Tony fi...
Trainer Tony Millard looks to have jumped straight into the bridle this season with a winner on opening day and a number of prominent finishes and that augurs well for his all-weather specialist A...
What separates the night all-weather meetings at Sha Tin from the common garden all-weather races is the track pattern, and that should allow the Sean Woods-trained Free Judgement to land an overdu...
The Caspar Fownes-trained Thumbs Up has been one of the forgotten horses of the season, but the six-year-old gets his chance to put that right in the Group Two Chairman's Trophy (1,600m) at Sha Tin...