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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 ...
Many and varied indeed are the views held worldwide about money management, or staking, in horse-racing. Ask an Aussie about staking and you're likely to get a different answer to what you'd hear ...
How badly will Betfair Australasia be affected by the High Court's rejection of its turnover appeal? CEO Giles Thompson is sticking to Betfair's script in saying that ''a gross revenue model is the...
Gold Coast trainer Alan Bailey has mapped out a provincial Cups campaign for talented gelding Frozone after he clung to a narrow victory at Doomben.Aided by a copybook Glen Colless ride, Frozone ($...
Astute Gold Coast trainer Howard Wilson likes to keep his cards close to his chest but he can't contain the enthusiasm he feels about exciting gelding Fifteen Carat.Fifteen Carat resumes from a spe...
THE validity of the sponsorship shutout of corporate bookmakers in New South Wales and Queensland is overdue for industry scrutiny, according to Betfair Australasia chief executive Giles Thompson, ...
Sydney cast-off Lucky Leak booked a Listed Weetwood Handicap start at Toowoomba next month following a determined victory at Doomben.Lucky Leak, ridden by Chris Munce, showed a lot of grit after ra...
Trainer Rex Lipp is hopeful barrier rogue Dual Chamber will be on her best behaviour to overcome a poor Doomben record and earn a winter carnival campaign.Dual Chamber has started six times at Doom...
Former Sydney sprinter Lucky Leak is proof that time and patience ultimately bring rewards.Toowoomba trainer Patrick Sexton and part-owner Marty McInerney have between them transformed Lucky Leak w...
Resolute stayer Synchronised helped Tony McCoy complete a grand slam of National victories in the Welsh version at Chepstow.The event, carried over from Christmas, will not earn the champion jockey...