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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 ...
And now, as they say, for something completely different. This month I’m interviewing William Mack, who is more than 80 years old and has been watching more Melbourne Cups than he cares to remembe...
French stayer Manighar has been purchased in a joint venture between American Earle Mack and Australian-based OTI Racing headed by Simon O'Donnell and Terry Henderson.The Racing Post reported the G...
No surprise that there's been a cynical reaction amongst punters to the news that leading UK bookmaker William Hill has completed its acquisition of Sportingbet's Australian business - for a whack...
Moonee Valley copped 13mls (half an inch) of rain on Thurs afternoon as storms hit Victoria, so it looks very likely that a slow track at least will be posted on Saturday. The rain has triggered be...
Tom Waterhouse has been appointed the new Australian CEO for mega British betting conglomerate William Hill. Waterhouse will take charge of all of William Hill’s operations in Australia, which in...
Chad Schofield and David Hayes will combine at Moonee Valley on Friday night with Gregers in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes. While their partnership may no longer be as strong as it once was, ...
Want a tip for WA races? Get on the William Pike bandwaggon. The WA premiership leader is back from a 3 month stint in Hong Kong and is expected to slip right back into winning form at Belmont Park...
The Moonee Valley Racing Club yesterday received 14 nominations for Saturday's William Reid Stakes, with a gallop at the track this morning to help decide if $10 million colt, Starspangledbanner ru...
There are two ways of learning: positive and negative. Plus and minus. And it is the fate of many punters to spend the majority of their betting lives in the latter camp. This is because of a var...