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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 ...
Flemington Tue 1 Nov 2011@ 2:56pm on Mon 31 Oct 2011Track: Dead 4Overall penetrometer: 4.73Track rating variations: None.Rail LocationToday: 3 metres.Previous meeting 29 Oct 2011 - True.Last meetin...
Doomben betting info for Saturday (from TAB on friday afternoon)
It was sometime in the early 70s that my late father introduced me to a friend of his named Alec Quinn. As a fledgling young punter, Alec became the focus of particular interest when I was informe...
In the November PPM, I chronicled my journey into the Victorian State Library to obtain a copy of the very first formguide I kept for research purposes and expressed surprise at how little informa...
You Wanted to KnowFor most of last year, we regularly received requests to stay with the progress of the pure white Newcastle filly, THE OPERA HOUSE.She races early on the program today at her home...
In the past two issues I have written about my findings relevant to horseracing websites in, firstly, Western Australia ( perthturftalk.com , kozform.com, puntperth.com and westozracing.com ) i...
How much do bookies really know? How good is their grapevine? How come they always seem to know when a well-fancied horse is 'off'? How do they maintain an edge over the punter? All these questio...
Inside info...If you're in the jumps racing business in Victoria, then get ready to try something else...Word in government areas in Melbourne is that jumps racing will soon be outlawed. Time will ...
Many of the letters I receive each month from PPM readers ask me for ideas on how best to approach the task of studying form. Most ask me what I do and which formguides I use. Because I am requir...
Although we don’t always make it every year, my son Robert and I enjoy going to the New Year’s day meeting at Flemington. It gives us a chance to relax as father and son without any of the usual ...