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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 ...
Trainer Rob Heathcote begins his assault on the Doomben summer series when Excellantes and Work The Room clash in their comebacks at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The pair, along with stablemate Captain C...
THE connections of Caulfield Cup fancies Moudre, Precedence and Linton were hoping yesterday's third declarations would bring some definite news about their cup prospects, and so it did: Win on Sat...
A clash with Golden Rose winner Manawanui at Rosehill on Saturday will determine whether Queenslander State Of Wealth travels even further south for next month's Group One Caulfield Guineas.Trainer...
Trainer Peter Moody will divert his Group One attention from Black Caviar to Manighar and Lights Of Heaven in Saturday's Doomben Cup.Moody's one regret going into the race is that the two have to r...
Metal Bender and Triple Honour, two horses central to trainer Chris Waller's major spring plans, are ready to open their campaigns after competing in separate barrier trials.After watching them go ...
In an intriguing move by the normally conservative New Zealand TAB, Triple Trio betting will be introduced there this Saturday. The NZ TAB has guaranteed a $1 million pool for the first day of th...
Rob Heathcote admits he's a realist as well as a dreamer.Still chasing his elusive first Group One win following Woorim's shock failure in Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield, Heathcot...