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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...
Many years ago, the American Turf Guide tackled the subject of 'what does the average bettor really know' about racing. Writer Rufus Gorman conduc...
It never ceases to surprise me how many punters love betting on trifectas - but don't really know the best ways to couple up their selections. Tr...
Whether you are betting a simple staking plan, or an intricate one demanding lots of input and thought, you have to keep one point in mind: Streng...
Typhoon Tracy may have won at Caulfield on Saturday but the way she did it left question marks. Trainer Peter Moody says: 'She toughed it out...She...
A Short One and a Question for You...OK, somebody tell me.A trainer was rubbed out yesterday for six months.His horse, a topliner with a recent big...
Will he or won't he? This is the question surrounding UK stayer Sans Frontiere and the likelihood of a Melbourne Cup start. Talk is that the 2kgs p...
Group One winners Shellscrape and Pressday head a small but select team for Chris Waller at Saturday's feature meeting at Randwick as Sydney's lead...
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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 ...
Many years ago, the American Turf Guide tackled the subject of 'what does the average bettor really know' about racing. Writer Rufus Gorman conducted the question-and-answer session. The principl...
It never ceases to surprise me how many punters love betting on trifectas - but don't really know the best ways to couple up their selections. Trifecta betting is popular because it has the capac...
Whether you are betting a simple staking plan, or an intricate one demanding lots of input and thought, you have to keep one point in mind: Strength of will! Punters battle with this part of thei...
Typhoon Tracy may have won at Caulfield on Saturday but the way she did it left question marks. Trainer Peter Moody says: 'She toughed it out...She was there to be beaten but she stood up today so ...
A Short One and a Question for You...OK, somebody tell me.A trainer was rubbed out yesterday for six months.His horse, a topliner with a recent big win against his name, is worth millions.The pre-r...
Will he or won't he? This is the question surrounding UK stayer Sans Frontiere and the likelihood of a Melbourne Cup start. Talk is that the 2kgs penalty he copped for winning the Irish St Leger wi...
Group One winners Shellscrape and Pressday head a small but select team for Chris Waller at Saturday's feature meeting at Randwick as Sydney's leading trainer ramps up preparations for the autumn c...
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