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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 ...
Mark Newnham has had some good times at Kembla Grange, winning three jockeys premierships there, and it seems logical that his first winner as a trainer would come at the South Coast track, report...
A perfect barrier draw has Josh Parr confident he can reunite with Skytrain for a stakes victory at Randwick on Saturday.Parr hasn't ridden the Peter Snowden-trained Skytrain since claiming back-to...
There are still 10 Group One races to be decided in Sydney before the end of the month but Gai Waterhouse is already thinking beyond the autumn carnival.In a dream start to the Sydney carnival, Wat...
On a sentimental note Josh Parr would have been thrilled to ride Skilled in Saturday's Randwick Guineas but he is more than happy with the decision which gives him the opportunity on stablemate Ret...
Josh Parr will never make a television critic.A month of enforced rest recuperating from a stress fracture to his L5 vertebra taught him just how much he loved being a jockey."For the first month I...
FRESH from her dominant Gold Coast experience, Gai Waterhouse is now turning her attention on Victoria’s Festival Of Racing, reports Racing Network.
Another pointless stewards' probe! Racing NSW stewards gave Josh Parr the heavy questioning after his ride on the Peter Snowden-trained Merge, runner-up in the Panasonic Specialists Air Network Han...
CANBERRA Acceptances on Sunday 13th March, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: True--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01.00 ACTEWAGL MAIDEN PLATE 1200 M Of $20000 ...
A huge fire at a nearby paint factory has forced Friday's Canberra race meeting at Thoroughbred Park to be abandoned.
Leading apprentice Samantha Clenton faces an adjourned stewards inquiry as stewards were kept busy at Sunday's meetings in New South Wales, Canberra and Victoria. Racing NSW stewards opened and a...