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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 ...
Have we seen next year's Melbourne Cup winner? Glen Boss reckons we have. He was aboard the likely superstar Puissance De Lune who rocked fans with a superlative win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes ...
Sydney's wet weather looks to have closed the door on the Group One aspirations for one of trainer Joe Pride's team at Rosehill on Saturday, but could have opened it for another.The Doncaster plans...
The injury plagued but highly talented De Lightning Ridge has bolstered trainer Joe Pride's already strong team of mares for the upcoming autumn.The four-year-old has been at Pride's Warwick Farm s...
Regally bred filly The Broken Shore can add her name to Gai Waterhouse's burgeoning army of two-year-olds when she makes her debut at Gosford on Wednesday.The Hussonet half sister to champion sire ...
Queensland Oaks winner Miss Keepsake is set to bolster Joe Pride's in-form Sydney team when she arrives from New Zealand next month.Pride said the mare's owners had contacted him to take on the mar...
Even in an age when personal privacy is being crushed by governments and big corporations, the suggestion that jockeys should have their phones tapped in a bid to weed out corruption is a dangerous...
Vision And Power has already reinvented himself once and trainer Joe Pride is hoping he can do it again in Brisbane this winter.The gelding was the surprise packet of last year's Sydney autumn carn...