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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 ...
Who'll rule the roost in Victoria in 2010? Looks like it will be Peter Moody. The popular trainer has a stable packed with 'gun' gallopers. There's every chance they'll dominate the autumn. Moody a...
Champions Black Caviar and So You Think are set to battle it out for honours for the Victorian Racehorse of the Year.In what is seen as a prelude to the Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year ti...
Black Caviar has been named Australian Horse of the Year for a second straight year at an awards ceremony in Melbourne.The world champion sprinter raced nine times for as many wins during the 2011-...
Right on the ball...Good to see that Luke Nolen has headed off to the UK full of confidence after riding a winning double at Flemington on Saturday. His confidence adds to the mood of optimism in P...
Jockey Luke Nolen has promised South Australian racegoers an even better performance from unbeaten champion Black Caviar in an ominous warning to her rivals in the Group One Goodwood at Morphettvil...
Luke Nolen didn't let the absence of Black Caviar disrupt his day at Doomben when he booted home Victorian Turnitup to a narrow win in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes.Fresh from his victory aboar...
Luke Nolen didn't have long to soak up Black Caviar's unforgettable Diamond Jubilee Stakes win.A little more than 24 hours after narrowly keeping the champion mare's unbeaten record intact in the G...
Jockey Luke Nolen hopes trainer Peter Moody can be persuaded to showcase Black Caviar in England next year.Nolen, 31, will be chasing his seventh Group One win this season when Black Caviar lines u...
The sky is the limit for Black Caviar if she can again dominate her opposition in Saturday's Danehill Stakes at Flemington, and trainer Peter Moody is looking forward to what he describes as her de...