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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 ...
To the many newcomers to the racing fraternity, recognition of the name Dominic Beirne may be pretty much restricted to those who have access to pay television’s Sky racing channel, and identif...
A meeting between leading industry figures and the new board of Racing NSW has set the scene for a revision of race programming and handicapping in the state.Proposals for the changes will be sent ...
Comparisons to Sunline continued to flow after emerging superstar More Joyous racked up her seventh consecutive win and her second at Group One level in the George Main Stakes at Randwick.The four-...
That didn't take long...New English wonder horse Frankel will be elevated over Black Caviar in the world rankings after his commanding win in the Grp 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. Dominic Gardiner-H...
From NEIL FRANKLYNCOSABELLA5m : Trainer : Moira Murdoch & Dominic Olson24 starts : 4 wins : 8 placesWin distance range : 1150m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead : Slow : HeavyThis sprinter-mile...
Moonee Valley JRA Cup winner Precedence has been given a 1.5kgs penalty for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The penalty has lifted Precedence's weight in both races to 52kgs and elevates him to 3...
Jockey Dominic Tourneur says he doesn't feel the weight of expectation riding leading fancy Alcopop in the Melbourne Cup.Tourneur, 35, will ride for the first time at Flemington on Tuesday but he s...
Dwayne Dunn has picked up the one-off ride on Predatory Pricer in Saturday's Group One Turnbull Stakes after regular spring carnival jockey Steven King failed in his appeal against the severity of ...
War horse Theseo has joined a select group of horses to claim back-to-back victories in the Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill.The Gai Waterhouse-trained six-year-old missed the spring with a leg problem bu...