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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...
Back in the limelight? Rick Hore-Lacy, who's been in the shadows since the Redoute's Choice glory days of the late 1990s, seems to have landed a po...
Rave reviews...The news is all good for the new crop of rising 3YOs. Some of them turned in real eye-catching effortsm at the Rosehill barrier tria...
from NEIL FRANKLYNLOVINGTHELIMELIGHT6m : Trainer : Paul Jenkins19 starts : 4 wins : 9 placesWin distance range : 1600m - 2020mTrack conditions won ...
PETER Moody will have all guns blazing in the group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday, reports The Age.It says: Moody will tackle the sprin...
SATURDAY shapes as a pivotal day for Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan when he unveils his exciting team of three-year-olds at Flemington, reports Rac...
How dumb can you get? Shane Scriven should stop all the 'tears' over his 5 months' ban for that "whip steal" incident at Ipswich a week ago. He des...
from NEIL FRANKLYNHIGHLIGHT4m : Trainer - Frank Ritchie5 starts : 3 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead ...
Believe Yourself has burst into Golden Slipper calculations following her bold win in the Sweet Embrace Stakes at Randwick. TAB price assessors ...
This season's three-year-old form at weight-for-age has encouraged trainer Lee Freedman to take on Weekend Hussler with emerging star Time Thief in...
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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 ...
Back in the limelight? Rick Hore-Lacy, who's been in the shadows since the Redoute's Choice glory days of the late 1990s, seems to have landed a potential topliner with Toorak Toff, impressive winn...
Rave reviews...The news is all good for the new crop of rising 3YOs. Some of them turned in real eye-catching effortsm at the Rosehill barrier trials. Sydney's Daily Tele says: 'Golden Slipper runn...
from NEIL FRANKLYNLOVINGTHELIMELIGHT6m : Trainer : Paul Jenkins19 starts : 4 wins : 9 placesWin distance range : 1600m - 2020mTrack conditions won on : Good : DeadThis mare hasn't completed a lot o...
PETER Moody will have all guns blazing in the group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday, reports The Age.It says: Moody will tackle the sprint with four high-class three-year-olds in a bid to...
SATURDAY shapes as a pivotal day for Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan when he unveils his exciting team of three-year-olds at Flemington, reports Racing Network. Gollan will produce unbeaten filly...
How dumb can you get? Shane Scriven should stop all the 'tears' over his 5 months' ban for that "whip steal" incident at Ipswich a week ago. He deserves every day of the penalty. Shane is 45 and wh...
from NEIL FRANKLYNHIGHLIGHT4m : Trainer - Frank Ritchie5 starts : 3 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead : HeavyThis mare may have been a shade lucky to de...
Believe Yourself has burst into Golden Slipper calculations following her bold win in the Sweet Embrace Stakes at Randwick. TAB price assessors immediately reacted to the win by slashing the Ger...
This season's three-year-old form at weight-for-age has encouraged trainer Lee Freedman to take on Weekend Hussler with emerging star Time Thief in the Group One Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley.F...