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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 this article, UK expert Philip Alexander, one of Britain's most acclaimed form and systems experts, concludes his feature on John Mort "The Butterfly" Green, the Australian punter who became hi...
My father, a throwback from the Victorian age, was often given to uttering platitudes as though he had just invented them. When my interest in dog-paddling across the treacherous English channel h...
Philip Alexander, one of Britain's best-known racing writers, reveals the winning secrets of the great punter Phil Bull, founder of the Timeform empire. This is Part One of a series. Whatever cri...
ASCOT Acceptances on Saturday 21st November, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: Rail is at the inside position--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-11.48 CARLTON NAT...
March 21Wow! what a days turmoil Rosehill could produce today as some of the races will not be as easy to the favourites as seems per the prepost odds due to the added issue of forecast rain.Race 5...
Second Effort ($5.50) has been the centre of a good move in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday, firming from $11. Punters are banking on a wet track giving Second Effort the edge; ...
Hong Kong assault...Can a couple of gallopers from Hong Kong dominate the spring? Who knows - but shrewd HK trainer John Moore obviously reckons his pair, Mighty High and Silver Grecian, can do jus...
Congratulations to trainer John Sadler for slamming the trend to slash the distances of Australia's major city staying Cups.Sadler says the Brisbane Cup has lost its profile and status since severi...
Who's interested in the job of trainer for Lloyd Williams? It seems he's about to split with John Sadler. A report in The Age says LW is severing ties with Sadler after a disappointing season so fa...