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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 ...
JUST THE FACTS M'AM, JUST THE FACTSAs I wrote on the intro, George just wanted the facts. No embellishment.That suits me fine today because I want to make just one point which might make you some e...
The Toff's on top...Rick Hore-Lacy's fine 3YO Toorak Toff is a firm fav for Sat's Grp 1 1600m Caulfield Guineas following Tuesday's barrier draw. He's got barrier #8. TAB Sportsbet has Toorak Toff ...
Mick Price is targetting the Grp 1 Toorak 1600m next month at Caulfield for his classy 4YO Spacecraft following his third successive win this campaign in the Ascend Handicap (1600 metres) at Moonee...
The Cox Plate looms as a target for powerhouse entire Toorak Toff after he rewarded the faith of his trainer Rick Hore-Lacy with a Group One comeback victory in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caul...
Toorak Toff has been ruled out of the Cox Plate by trainer Rick Hore-Lacy who will keep him to shorter races.Hore-Lacy had flagged the possibility of a start in the Cox Plate (2040m) for Toorak Tof...
TAB Sportsbet reports on latest Golden Rose betting: Toorak Toff who opened $21 on 22 July has been the best supported before the draw. Chance Bye has also had followers and was $71 before the wee...
An impressive jumpout win has the connections of top sprinter Toorak Toff buoyant about his prospects in Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.The Rick Hore-Lacy-trained four-year-...
Star three-year-old Toorak Toff has made a full recovery from a bout of travel sickness and will return to Rick Hore-Lacy's Caulfield stables at the end of the week.Hore-Lacy remains hopeful the fl...
Craig Williams is banking on history stacking up when he rides The Fuzz in Saturday's Group One Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.Williams is keen on the chances of the David Hayes-trained six-year-old ...
Con Karakatsanis is a young man with the world at his feet.Aged just 24, the former jockey turned trainer already has a Group One win in the bag courtesy of Black Piranha's Stradbroke Handicap triu...