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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 ...
Faced with a big field of runners, what’s your usual reaction? Could be that it’s a groan because you’re going to have to plough through the form of 14 or more runners. How to slash the field and...
Jumbo Prince is the punters’ pick to take out the Grafton Cup tomorrow, reports TAB. The Michael Nolan-trained four-year-old is the best backed runner ($8 into $6), holding 30 percent of t...
The legendary punter Eric Connolly handed out a lot of advice during his time - but none so sensible as that which warned punters to bet cautiously. Connolly always said that if you were using a...
Champion jumps trainer Eric Musgrove once thought the future of jumps racing was bleak, but now he believes it’s brighter than ever. Musgrove, one of the icons of the sport who claimed the Bri...
French jockey Eric Legrix has ended his riding career on a winning note with victory at Singapore's Kranji track on Sunday.Legrix, 44, will return to his homeland to join Pascal Bary as an assistan...
Eric Connolly once said there was a simple system which could win good money for patient punters. He had this to say: "It is not always easy to correctly time the preparation of a horse, and pun...
GEELONG SYNTHETIC Acceptances on Monday 6th September, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.42 CHI...
Eric Connolly was regarded as one of Australia's greatest professional punters. In his lifetime, he won massive fortunes, lost them, won them back and lost them again. In fact, at the time of his ...
If ever racing men sit down to talk about famous punters, there is one name that will always be mentioned - Eric Connolly. He was a racehorse trainer in the good old days' but mainly he won a l...