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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 ...
IT AIN'T ALL THAT EASY, BROTHER!I spent several hours on the form analysing that one factor we spoke about late last week. How long do you spend altogether?Anyway, I finally eliminated Eagle Farm c...
A quieter morning on track this morning after the rousing gallop from Dandino yesterday. The final touches are going on a couple of the internationals on before their Australian debuts on Saturda...
Joe Pride has a simple explanation why stable star Rain Affair continues to win. He tries harder than any horse he's ever trained.Pride has worked with some good horses in his time but none that ri...
Jockey Luke Nolen has coaxed thin-skinned filly Headway to a spine-tingling victory in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington.Realising Headway resented the whip, Nolen had to resist the ...
A dearth of official Victorian trials for two-year-olds is making the job harder to get juveniles ready for the autumn features including the Blue Diamond Stakes.John Sadler and Troy Corstens' Malu...
Group One winner Tears I Cry has had his workload ramped up in order to revive his fortunes on the anniversary of his last win at Flemington.Warrnambool trainer Anne McGrath, who also part-owns the...
Publishing will have to carry five kilograms more than a year ago to make it back-to-back wins in the Standish Handicap.The five-year-old would be only the sixth horse and the first in 58 years to ...
Gai Waterhouse believes blinkers will make Manhattan Rain even harder to beat on debut at Rosehill on Saturday.The much-hyped colt is providing Waterhouse with something to smile about following a ...