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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 ...
NEARLY 12 months ago to the day, Kerrin McEvoy left the Sandown quarantine centre with a confident smile on his face having partnered Godolphin's spring carnival raider All The Good in a stirring g...
Craig Williams is delighted by the progress Dunaden has made since his Melbourne Cup win. He arrived in Hong Kong from Japan (where he has a 6 weeks contract) on Tuesday to ride Dunaden in a key tr...
Not a bad return to racing for last year's Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden on Saturday night...The classy French stayer ran 3rd, beaten 5.75 lengths, in the Grp 2 2400m Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarke...
Glen Boss is the new rider for defending champion Southern Speed in next month's Grp I Caulfield Cup (2400m). The plum ride was up for grabs after Craig Williams decided to renew his partnership wi...
Bad news to start the week...Dunaden is in doubt for the Caulfield Cup - and maybe even the Melbourne Cup! The French star has a foot abscess which may put his Caulfield Cup run in doubt. The absce...
What do we make of Dunaden's slightly disappointing performance in the overnight Grp 1 2400m King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot UK? Last year's Melbourne Cup winner ran 6th of the 10 run...
from STEVE MORAN in Hong Kongwww.racingvictoria.net.auJet-setting and in-form Melbourne jockey Craig Williams declared that Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden was 'ready to go' in Sunday's $1.7 million H...
Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden's work rate will be stepped up on Tuesday when he will gallop on the turf track at Sha Tin ahead of Sunday's International Vase.Mikel Delzangles' travelling representat...
With 47 left to contend for the final spots in the Melbourne Cup, last year's winner Americain is a firm fav at $4.20 (13/4) ahead of another French raider, the Geelong Cup winner Dunaden $7.00. T...
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