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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 ...
Press Statement has been installed as the one to beat in the Randwick Guineas, opening as the $1.80 favourite with TAB to win the Group One. Montaigne ($7.00) and Stay With Me ($8.50) look...
What a cracker for Christmas! PPD Club members for the right message from chief form analyst Brian Blackwell on Friday - the amazing BB tipped last-race Cranbourne winner BON ROCKET $7.90/$...
Big support for Sacred Elixir continues with 50% of the TAB market now on the NZ gelding to win the Victoria Derby 2500m at Flemington. The money flood has pushed him into $2.70 - a significan...
Brian Mayfield-Smith is hopeful that Orange County can overcome a wide gate to hold his Group One-winning form and become the third horse in five years to complete the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes-Toor...
TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes on Saturday . “This could be the most highly anticipated race of the spring, any o...
Danny Nikolic surprisingly hasn't got a ride in Saturday's Underwood Stakes which he has won four times, but he'll do his best to win the other Group One feature on the Caulfield program, the Ruper...
For the big races at the Melbourne spring carnival you can't beat the PPD Club's Brian Blackwell for landing the BIG WINNERS - and BB is in rip-roaring form this spring, landing THREE major r...
Sacred Elixir’s Barrier 1 draw hasn’t stopped punters from backing it to win the Victoria Derby, firming from $3.20 to $2.80 with TAB. While over 40% of the market has been on the Gelding, there...
When it comes to the big races at the Melbourne spring carnival you can't beat the PPD Club's Brian Blackwell for landing the BIG WINNERS - and BB is in rip-roaring form this spring, landing ...
Punters have quickly targeted Awesome Rock for the Underwood Stakes. TAB reports that 60% of all early bets has been on Awesome Rock ($8.00). The winner of the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes opened at ...