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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 last month’s article in this series on international professionals, we introduced Steve Zacks from the Handicapper’s Edge at brisnet.com . In discussing betting, Zacks points out that a punte...
This article continues our series on the thoughts and ideas of professional handicappers around the world. Last month, Craig Milkowskji from www.pacefigures.com came up with a number of questi...
In all the years I have been checking out racing writers around the world the one name that invariably crops up is that of James Quinn. I have enormous respect for him. Quinn has been leading aut...
This is the sixth article in our series which brings you the views, ideas and angles from some of the foremost racing experts around the world. In this article, the US ‘legend’ James Quinn discuss...
Alf Sorbillo an American punter who made a fortune betting on the Californian races in the 50s and 60s used to tell anyone who asked for the secret of his success: "I made my own luck." By this, ...
In the second part of our Great Debate feature, two of our contributors, P.B. King and Mark Merrick, continue the analysis of form handicapping. This month they discuss the pitfalls facing punters...
Time handicapping has been very much maligned over the years, with many racing experts making negative comments on times as an important form factor in horse-racing. The legendary Pittsburgh Phil...
The best advice anyone can hand out as far as 'money management' is concerned in betting is that you adopt a safety first approach. It may seem dull and lacking the excitement of risk-taking but, ...
Scratch a professional punter today and what are you likely to find? Probably a man steeped in computer-driven ratings, and addicted to video replays! A marked contrast, I suggest, to the professi...
Denton Jardine confirms his series on money management by taking a new look at the 6-Point Divisor Plan, a staking approach that some people say is fail save and others claim is financially perilo...