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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 ...
Bookies are taking no chances with super mare Black Caviar in Sat's Lightning 1000m at Flemington. They have her at $1.45 favoritism in the early market.LIGHTNING STAKES MARKETBLACK CAVIAR 1.45 1.0...
Looking into the Crystal ball...Owner David Moodie, who part-owns promising 2YOs Servant and Riptide (1st and 2nd at Flemington) says he's keen for the early return to racing of another 2YO, Golden...
Unbeaten mare Black Caviar faces her moment of truth when the much-anticipated clash with star sprinter Hay List takes place in Saturday's Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington.The Group One Patinack...
She's staying where she is...Super mare Typhoon Tracy will stay in Australia this season. Her owners have turned their backs on the chance of a $1 million bonus on offer in Hong Kong in April. Tra...
Star Witness turned in what looked like a winning gallop at Flemington on Tuesday morning, but that was tempered by the fact that he will bump into super mare Black Caviar in Saturday's $1 million ...
Mick Price is happy with his decision to run Dubleanny against her own sex at Caulfield on Saturday rather than in Group One company a week later.The five-year-old's outstanding record of seven win...
In-form trainer Joe Pride believes if there is ever going to be a day when Anatomica can beat super filly Samantha Miss, Saturday is it.The pair clash in the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) ...
The Peter Moody stable has delayed a decision on whether to start unbeaten filly Cute Emily at Caulfield on Saturday or take her to Adelaide for the South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes.The Chois...
Exciting sprinter Black Caviar makes her much-anticipated return from an injury-enforced layoff in Saturday's Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield.Unbeaten in five starts, she hasn't raced since landing h...