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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 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...
Trainer Jeff Caught will make a decision on Wednesday whether Pleasure Time will get his chance to continue the stable's good fortune at Eagle Farm...
Outstanding filly Mosheen will stick to her own age and sex when she attempts to take her Group One tally to four in the Vinery Stud Stakes on East...
Trainer Mick Price has Group One aspirations with recent acquisition Velocitea after she scored a narrow win in the Hyderabad Race Club Stakes at C...
Inside Fulham Prison in eastern Victoria is a man who will listen more intently than many to Saturday's Caulfield Cup.He is doing time for thumping...
Special Report When I surprised everyone by resigning from my banking job well before retirement, I told them: "I've always believed a person sh...
Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a rea...
We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to oursel...
In writing this article on the intricacies of staking, I turned to my library which contains several hundred books on racing. From these books I h...
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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 ...
Trainer Jeff Caught will make a decision on Wednesday whether Pleasure Time will get his chance to continue the stable's good fortune at Eagle Farm.Caught trained his first Sydney winner when Falin...
Outstanding filly Mosheen will stick to her own age and sex when she attempts to take her Group One tally to four in the Vinery Stud Stakes on Easter Saturday.Mosheen has taken on the colts and gel...
Trainer Mick Price has Group One aspirations with recent acquisition Velocitea after she scored a narrow win in the Hyderabad Race Club Stakes at Caulfield.Formerly trained by Brian Mayfield-Smith ...
Inside Fulham Prison in eastern Victoria is a man who will listen more intently than many to Saturday's Caulfield Cup.He is doing time for thumping a neighbour who gave him trouble, and like the pu...
Special Report When I surprised everyone by resigning from my banking job well before retirement, I told them: "I've always believed a person should have three careers in life, and now I'm going...
Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a real bash at the place side of things and never got a...
We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to ourselves, we keep on repeating history! A pal was moan...
In writing this article on the intricacies of staking, I turned to my library which contains several hundred books on racing. From these books I have derived a great deal of pleasure and a huge am...