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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...
Highly rated UK import Dandino is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Fresh off the back of his impressive second in the Hardwicke St...
Group One winning sprinters Swick and Russeting will leave Bart Cummings' Sydney farm this week bound for the Melbourne spring carnival.The two hav...
In-form six-year-old Anyways has the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington on his radar after posting three wins from four starts in less tha...
The Stradbroke Handicap could be back on the agenda for star sprinter Hay List despite his shock withdrawal from Saturday's Doomben 10,000.McNair w...
Promising filly Alberton Park may have earned a trip to Melbourne for the spring following her brilliant comeback win at Doomben.Having her first s...
Ortensia will return to Sydney with the TJ Smith as her main target after her Oakleigh Plate failure. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia has emerge...
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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 ...
Highly rated UK import Dandino is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Fresh off the back of his impressive second in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot last month, the Australian-own...
Group One winning sprinters Swick and Russeting will leave Bart Cummings' Sydney farm this week bound for the Melbourne spring carnival.The two have had a short break at what the trainer calls his ...
In-form six-year-old Anyways has the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington on his radar after posting three wins from four starts in less than a month.Anyways did it the hard way at Moonee Va...
The Stradbroke Handicap could be back on the agenda for star sprinter Hay List despite his shock withdrawal from Saturday's Doomben 10,000.McNair was relieved to learn Hay List's infection in his o...
Promising filly Alberton Park may have earned a trip to Melbourne for the spring following her brilliant comeback win at Doomben.Having her first start since April, Alberton Park recorded the third...
Ortensia will return to Sydney with the TJ Smith as her main target after her Oakleigh Plate failure. Trainer Paul Messara says Ortensia has emerged OK from her 11th behind Mrs Onassis. Messara say...