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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...
Canberra sprinter Voice Commander wrote his name into the annals of Toowoomba racing when he scored a bold win in the first Weetwood Handicap run o...
A winter carnival campaign in Queensland might prove to be the making of Voice Commander who will have his first start of the new season at Randwic...
Trainer Danny Williams will decide later this week whether Wasted Emotions will make a surprise appearance in the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowo...
Voice Commander's trainer Nick Olive says the dual stakeswinner is rock-hard fit and capable of scoring an upset in the star-studded Warwick Stakes...
In-form trainer Nick Olive is banking on a good barrier draw to help offset Voice Commander's hefty weight in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doom...
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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 ...
Canberra sprinter Voice Commander wrote his name into the annals of Toowoomba racing when he scored a bold win in the first Weetwood Handicap run on the synthetic track.Voice Commander went into Sa...
A winter carnival campaign in Queensland might prove to be the making of Voice Commander who will have his first start of the new season at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Nick Olive says he has notic...
Trainer Danny Williams will decide later this week whether Wasted Emotions will make a surprise appearance in the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba on Saturday.Wasted Emotions took longer than ...
Voice Commander's trainer Nick Olive says the dual stakeswinner is rock-hard fit and capable of scoring an upset in the star-studded Warwick Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.Under normal circumstance...
In-form trainer Nick Olive is banking on a good barrier draw to help offset Voice Commander's hefty weight in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben.Olive was surprised when the dual stakeswinner...
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