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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 ...
Leading Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien will make his first visit to Australia in six years, with lightly raced colt Adelaide to start in the Cox Plate. Coolmore racing manager James Bester said O...
Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a real bash at the place side of things and never got a...
Over the years, the stories of many professional punters have been told. Most of these amazing success stories have come from the United States, where bettors in years gone by were more fearless t...
Many readers ask if there is such a thing as a sound staking system for place betting. I usually refrain from trying to answer the question. This is because the readers fail to provide me with th...
Danny O'Brien met the Queen; Aussie Jim McGrath called his last Royal meeting; former VRC committeeman Peter Barnett cheered home the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes winner Opinion; Australian Thoroughbr...
High profile trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have been banned for three years and four years respectively for administering cobalt to horses for performance-enhancing purposes. Both Kava...
AS well as confirming a start in Saturday’s Australian cup, Danny O’Brien said he’s already eyeing a second Cox Plate victory with Shamus Award . O’Brien told TVN’s Racing Review today that wi...
ONE year ago on Saturday, Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien left Caulfield confident that he was a real chance of winning a Caulfield or Melbourne Cup after an impressive first-up run from Vigor, re...