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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...
One Born Every DayAn online bookmaking firm is offering $4 Bart Cummings for the Melbourne Cup.Sounds good doesn't it? Any of Bart's win and you ge...
CAUTION IS MY MIDDLE NAMEThe only game in town. Indeed long term is just that.On Saturday last, I managed to find three placings from four tries, a...
BE IT ON YOUR OWN HEAD.When Black Caviar came out of the 10,000 there were numerous bleats from disgruntled punters."We should be given our money b...
A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yea...
Temptation and How to Resist It (Maybe).It's so hard to resist a bet... well, that horse could win... I must have something on it...Familiar thinki...
Every Race? Sorree!Can't be done. When you listen to the tipsters, or watch them, remember they are PAID (and handsomely at that) to pick horses- u...
DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE? WELL WHAT ABOUT TRACK BIAS?How You Feel About Track Bias? It seems to me that there are some things you can have o...
Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile continues to please trainer Anthony Cummings ahead of Saturday's AJC Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.Alth...
Barry Meadow, one of America’s greatest modern-day racing experts, has been a top-name writer in PPM for some years now. His collected works, in...
PPM reader Kerrin Brown has been enjoying success as a “lay” operator on Betfair. In this article he relates his personal story, and how he make...
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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 ...
One Born Every DayAn online bookmaking firm is offering $4 Bart Cummings for the Melbourne Cup.Sounds good doesn't it? Any of Bart's win and you get paid 3/1.And right now he is flying so high you'...
CAUTION IS MY MIDDLE NAMEThe only game in town. Indeed long term is just that.On Saturday last, I managed to find three placings from four tries, and if I'd "yankeed" them I'd have come within thre...
BE IT ON YOUR OWN HEAD.When Black Caviar came out of the 10,000 there were numerous bleats from disgruntled punters."We should be given our money back", they wailed.In the name of fairness, WHY???W...
A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. After all, the $27,500-fee C...
Temptation and How to Resist It (Maybe).It's so hard to resist a bet... well, that horse could win... I must have something on it...Familiar thinking?Here's a way to try to tighten it all up, but i...
Every Race? Sorree!Can't be done. When you listen to the tipsters, or watch them, remember they are PAID (and handsomely at that) to pick horses- up to four or more- in every race on their program....
DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE? WELL WHAT ABOUT TRACK BIAS?How You Feel About Track Bias? It seems to me that there are some things you can have opinions about, and that there are other things whi...
Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile continues to please trainer Anthony Cummings ahead of Saturday's AJC Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.Although there is a $3 million difference in prizemone...
Barry Meadow, one of America’s greatest modern-day racing experts, has been a top-name writer in PPM for some years now. His collected works, in books and magazines, are a feast of information f...
PPM reader Kerrin Brown has been enjoying success as a “lay” operator on Betfair. In this article he relates his personal story, and how he makes money from his operation. The first time I went...