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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 ...
In 1979, a book by Dr William Quirin changed thoroughbred handicapping forever. The title was Winning At The Races, Computer Discoveries in Thoroughbred Handicapping. In the book, Quirin wrote on...
Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander has had another go at the Australian Racing Board over the simmering whip debacle. In his Daily Telegraph column, KC says: 'The whip rule has to be changed. No ...
There's growing criticism of the bias at Rosehill - and much of it is coming from father and son team Ken and Richard 'Gets The Bikkies' Callander. Richie Boy blasted the inside bias on TVN and Ken...
Sydney youngster Hot Snitzel emerged as a serious winter carnival threat after leaving his opposition in his wake with a demoralising win in the Listed Ken Russell Classic.The Gerald Ryan-trained H...
Trainer Gerald Ryan is confident of claiming successive wins in the Listed Ken Russell Classic at the Gold Coast with talented Sydney youngster Dances On Stars.Ryan won the 1200m feature last year ...
Australian jumper Pentiffic has finished fifth in the Pegasus Jump at Nakayama in Japan, his lead up to the world's richest race over obstacles next month.Bashi Ken won the race with Pentiffic, the...
Alan Bailey isn't getting too excited about including the Magic Millions Classic on his resume when talented youngster Five O'Clock lines up in the 1200-metre Gold Coast feature on Saturday.Bailey ...
LADY Lakshmi, winner of today’s Ken Cox Handicap at Flemington, could find herself back at the track on Crown Oaks day.
Go, Kenny, go...Veteran semi-retired turf scribbler Ken Callander has paid out on those crazy new whip rules. In his Daily Telegraphcolumn, Ken rages: 'Sydney and Melbourne should go their own way ...