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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 ...
Nash Rawiller's loss could prove his brother's gain when Viking Legend goes for Group One glory in the Randwick Guineas on Saturday.After Nash Rawiller was suspended for careless riding on Monday a...
Being the half-brother to a Hong Kong racing legend ensures plenty of interest in the debut performance of Best Choice at Canterbury on Wednesday.By Redoute's Choice out of Jade Tiara, the colt is ...
Queenslander Shoot Out slayed the giants at Randwick in a dramatic Royal Sovereign Stakes which left plans for Manhattan Rain in disarray.Just 40 minutes after celebrating the winning return of Mor...
The Moroney stable declared little known New Zealander Monaco Consul its best horse since four-time Group One winner Xcellent after he capped a meteoric rise through the grades with victory in the ...
If ever racing men sit down to talk about famous punters, there is one name that will always be mentioned - Eric Connolly. He was a racehorse trainer in the good old days' but mainly he won a l...
David Payne is expecting Prerequisite to benefit from a more forward ride at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Charge Forward filly runs in The Jim Beam Shed On Sale Handicap (1250m) and goes into the ra...