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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...
Like father, like son...Newcomer to Victorian riding ranks is Jordan Childs, 16yo son of former leading rider Greg Childs. He has has first raceday...
Champion jockey Greg Childs will bring down the curtain on a long and successful career with four mounts at Flemington on Saturday.The 46-year-old ...
EMERGING apprentices Jordan Childs and Regan Bayliss added to their impressive season’s at Bendigo on Wednesday. Childs partnered Royal I...
Whenever Greg Childs' name is mentioned, inevitably the name Sunline comes up as well and he is more than happy for that to be so despite his many ...
Rebel Raider confirmed his place as Australia's leading staying three-year-old when he romped away with Saturday's Group One South Australian Derby...
The working relationship between jockey Greg Childs and trainer Mike Moroney spanning 26 years will come to an end at Flemington on Saturday.Childs...
Greg Childs made winning a habit during his 30-year career and it was no different on his last day of riding.He won on Game Serena, the first of hi...
Trainer Chris Jordan completed a family fairytale when Fulmonti scored an upset win in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.Jordan, 54...
Michelle Payne finally got to ride a horse she trains under her dual license, with her first runner as trainer Queen of Zealand finishing seco...
Chad Schofield's disappointment at losing the ride on the Sydney autumn carnival's flagship sprinter, Lankan Rupee, has been marginally offset by...
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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 ...
Like father, like son...Newcomer to Victorian riding ranks is Jordan Childs, 16yo son of former leading rider Greg Childs. He has has first raceday ride next week. Jordan says: 'There's no pressure...
Champion jockey Greg Childs will bring down the curtain on a long and successful career with four mounts at Flemington on Saturday.The 46-year-old cited a loss of "killer instinct" after 30 years i...
EMERGING apprentices Jordan Childs and Regan Bayliss added to their impressive season’s at Bendigo on Wednesday. Childs partnered Royal Island to win BM 78 and post his 30th winner, one...
Whenever Greg Childs' name is mentioned, inevitably the name Sunline comes up as well and he is more than happy for that to be so despite his many other achievements."She lifted my profile ten-fold...
Rebel Raider confirmed his place as Australia's leading staying three-year-old when he romped away with Saturday's Group One South Australian Derby at Morphettville.Sent out the favourite with on a...
The working relationship between jockey Greg Childs and trainer Mike Moroney spanning 26 years will come to an end at Flemington on Saturday.Childs, 46, will retire after the meeting at which he ha...
Greg Childs made winning a habit during his 30-year career and it was no different on his last day of riding.He won on Game Serena, the first of his four mounts on Saturday, but it wasn't a fairyta...
Trainer Chris Jordan completed a family fairytale when Fulmonti scored an upset win in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.Jordan, 54, came to Brisbane to train in his own right in 20...
Michelle Payne finally got to ride a horse she trains under her dual license, with her first runner as trainer Queen of Zealand finishing second in a Warrnambool maiden on Sunday. While the...
Chad Schofield's disappointment at losing the ride on the Sydney autumn carnival's flagship sprinter, Lankan Rupee, has been marginally offset by gaining the mount on Victorian filly Solicit in S...
