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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 ...
The invasion begins...The Melbourne spring racing scene is just starting to warm up. In the UK, the first group of European raiders set to enter quarantine in England on Thursday. Racing Victoria's...
News from Racing Victoria last night confirmed Melbourne Cup second and third favourites – Bande and Admire Rakti – went into quarantine at Tokyo racecourse on Wednesday. They will complete a...
With eight European raiders having already taken up residence at Werribee, 11 more horses from that part of the world have entered quarantine at Newmarket (UK) in preparation for their arrival in...
Luca Cumani has moved a step closer to an elusive Melbourne Cup win with the safe arrival of his three contenders for this year's race.The UK-based Cumani, who trained second placegetters Purple Mo...
Another shambles...The Melbourne Herald Sun reports: 'Bureaucratic red tape threatens the entry of international horses in this year?s Melbourne spring carnival. Racing Victoria Limited have been ...
By Leigh JordonWith the major European races impacting Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival run and won, the international spotlight now turns to the TAB Werribee International Horse Centre as we pre...
Good news, the Japanese are coming...News today that the Federal Government has removed the final obstacle for Japanese horses to travel to Australia to compete at the Melbourne spring carnival. Ja...
MELBOURNE Cup plans are definitely back on for UK stayer Brown Panther who'll have his final hit out at Goodwood early Thursday morning. Trainer Tom Dascombe confirmed overnight that Brown Pant...
International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...