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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 ...
One of America's legendary racing newsmen was 'Boots' Baker. He brought new ideas and revolutionary thinking to the US racing scene back in the '40s and '50s. The following are some of his ideas w...
Good to see Sth Aussie champ Clare Lindop riding successfully in the UK. Last Saturday, she scored a 1.5 lengths win aboard the Jeremy Gask trained Ivory Silk 9/2 in a 1200m sprint at Newmarket. Cl...
Aussie jockey Clare Lindop has won on a 20/1 shot at the Wolverhampton track in England overnight. She scored on the Jeremy Gask trained Chief Exec. He won by 2 lengths. The UK Racing Post says: S...
A star is born? Perhaps. Bubbly apprentice Alannah Fancourt certainly made an impression booting home Carry Me Bluey in Sunday's Sth Grafton Cup 1600m at Grafton. It was her 22nd winner in only 16 ...
Australian jockey Craig Williams scored one of the biggest wins of his career when he won ''Japan's Melbourne Cup'' on Jaguar Mail in Kyoto yesterday, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: Wil...
The fairytale continued for knockabout trainer Michael Tubman when Chance Bye made it two wins from as many starts with an explosive performance in the Inglis Classic at Rosehill, reports The Age.I...
MURRAY Baker is happy with the barrier gods, but now needs the weather gods to smile on him in Saturday’s Randwick Guineas. NZ 2000 Guineas winner Atlante drew favourably in gate 5 in the $600,...
MURRAY Baker sounded an ominous warning to his pending Championship rivals when he declared It’s A Dundeel has “ever been better”. Baker said It’s A Dundeel is completely over the foot issue that...
Trainer Murray Baker says AJC Australian Derby winner Nom Du Jeu will start in the Group One Stoney Bridge Stakes at Hastings, New Zealand on Saturday, despite returning a positive test to a banned...
Brett Prebble took over the Happy Valley meeting last night and took his leave until international day with another winning treble to stretch his lead at the top of the jockeys' leaderboard.He star...