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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 ...
It never ceases to amaze me how many people take up an interest in horse-racing, and betting, at a late time in their life. At a race meeting recently I got chatting with an elderly chap and at o...
Kiwi Melbourne Cup hope Harris Tweed suffered a colic attack on Saturday night but co-trainer Bjorn Baker has told stewards the stayer has recovered and is 'fine'.Latest Melbourne Cup betting follo...
Support is warming up for Kiwi stayer Harris Tweed for Sat's BMW...NZ Thoroughbred News says: 'Twelve months ago, New Zealand trainers Murray and Bjorn Baker cashed in on a slice of Golden Slipper ...
Veteran New Zealand jockey Noel Harris has scotched any rumours of retirement in the wake of his latest Group One victory in Saturday's Telegraph Handicap.Harris, 55 earlier this month, gave Tim an...
New Zealand stayer Harris Tweed has put his Melbourne Cup campaign on track with a hard fought win in Sunday's Bart Cummings (2500m) at Flemington.Trained by Murray and Bjorn Baker, the Montjeu fiv...
News from Kiwi Land...Caulfield Cup runner-up Harris Tweed is back in work and is to tackle the Australian Cup 2000m (Grp 1) at Flemington in March. Connections reckon the game battler is due to wi...
Hope reigns eternal...Kiwi trainer Murray Baker still believes Harris Tweed can win the Melbourne Cup and he's taking him back to NZ to prepare him for another crack at the big one in which he ran ...
If there is a chink in the armour of iron horse Theseo, New Zealand stayer Harris Tweed might be the one to expose it in Saturday's $2.25 million The BMW at Rosehill.The Gai Waterhouse-trained Thes...
Sizing us up again...Game Kiwi stayer Harris Tweed, last year's Caulfield Cup runner-up, is all set for another Aussie campaign. He is likely to tackle the Australian Cup but his #1 autumn target i...
Melbourne Cup roughie Harris Tweed will be out to salvage a disastrous spring for father and son training team Murray and Bjorn Baker.The Bakers travelled across the Tasman with four horses they ho...