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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 ...
Trainer Matthew Smith celebrated his first Group One win when Hurtle Myrtle stormed to victory in the Myer Classic at Flemington on Saturday.The five-year-old eased in betting from $13 to $16 after...
One trainer not so pleased to see the sun shining in Sydney this week is Matthew Smith.Smith will saddle up Hurtle Myrtle in the Group One Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday w...
Trying to match the brilliance of the Darley-owned Parables at Randwick on Saturday isn't on the spring radar for fellow Warwick Farm-trained filly Slow The Flow.Instead, trainer Matthew Smith is l...
Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith is excited about the autumn prospects for talented filly Hurtle Myrtle, the leading light of his stable.The Flight Stakes placegetter took another step towards he...
First starter Exceed And Exalt earned a Pago Pago Stakes start when he narrowly denied Houston Benefactor from scoring a miraculous victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.Exceed And Exalt got through l...
The Melbourne spring prospects of Hurtle Myrtle will tested when she clashes with Doomben 10,000 winner Beaded in the final Group One race of the season at Eagle Farm.Hurtle Myrtle's trainer Mathew...
Impeccably-bred two-year-old Wales proved the omen and class bet when he scored an upset debut win in the Listed Redoute's Choice Stakes at Caulfield.The youngster was the only runner by Redoute's ...
Hurtle Myrtle recently showed leading jockey Blake Shinn she was above average, much to the delight of trainer Matthew Smith.The Warwick Farm horseman believed the filly was something special from ...