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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...
GODOLPHIN have rejuventated their riding stocks with the signing of William Buick and James Doyle as their retained stable jockeys, reporets Racin...
Black Type racing at Caulfield on Boxing Day and Flemington on New Year’s Day are the feature Melbourne meetings over the Festive period, but the...
Last year’s Emirates Melbourne Cup third place getter Jakkalberry remains on track for another tilt at the race this year...
Strawberry Boy maintained his perfect record for champion trainer Peter Moody with victory in the $80,000 The Chase Hotel Handicap at Caulfield.
An international campaign awaits the David Hayes-trained Nicconi after his blistering win in the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington.The four-...
With eight European raiders having already taken up residence at Werribee, 11 more horses from that part of the world have entered quarantine at ...
Rival trainers hoping benchmark filly Streama could be vulnerable first-up on Saturday might need to think again.There has been a school of thought...
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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 ...
GODOLPHIN have rejuventated their riding stocks with the signing of William Buick and James Doyle as their retained stable jockeys, reporets Racing Network. Sheikh Mohammed, ruler of Dubai and fi...
Black Type racing at Caulfield on Boxing Day and Flemington on New Year’s Day are the feature Melbourne meetings over the Festive period, but they aren’t the only cards conducted in the urban are...
An international campaign awaits the David Hayes-trained Nicconi after his blistering win in the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington.The four-year-old was Hayes' sole runner in the 1000 metre ...
With eight European raiders having already taken up residence at Werribee, 11 more horses from that part of the world have entered quarantine at Newmarket (UK) in preparation for their arrival in...
Rival trainers hoping benchmark filly Streama could be vulnerable first-up on Saturday might need to think again.There has been a school of thought that if there is a good time to meet Streama this...
