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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 ...
The January / February 2015 issue of Practical Punting Magazine is now available, just click on the green button for instant access.
Three-time Grp 1 winner Ortensia is back in work and on target for a first up crack at the Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) on February 16 at Flemington.Trainer Paul Messara said the seven-year-old d...
This analysis is for favourite backers. For each of the tracks mentioned below, the favourites have been analysed over the past five years. This month these pages compare the favourite results f...
Jockey Danny Nikolic has been fined $5,000 for failing to hand over his mobile phone to Victorian stewards.The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) issued the fine after a hearing on Tuesday...
Simply fantastic tipping by the PPD Club's #1 man Brian Blackwell throughout January - with the cream on the cake being his $24.90 winner GOLDEN ELLA on Monday. That made it 8 winners for BB'...
Another Tasmanian raid is planned for evergreen sprinter Royal Ida who is set to target a feature sprint double in the next month.Trainer Luke Oliver said he was keen to run Royal Ida in the Listed...
The scrapping of this year's Adelaide Magic Millions has disappointed trainer Anthony Freedman who was hoping to target the feature with impressive Sandown debut winner Cheyenne Warrior.Freedman sa...
In the February issue of P.P.M., regular contributor Martin Dowling unveiled a selection method he called Weighty Wisdom, which relies for its efficiency on a combination of form, weight and consi...