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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 ...
Underrated sprinter Steel Zip will test his winter carnival credentials with a trip to Newcastle for next month's Group Three Newmarket Handicap if he performs satisfactorily at Doomben.Trainer Pat...
In my previous few columns I've been explaining the quick, timesaving method I use to simplify doing the form for a meeting. My main initial aim is to look for losers.
In part 3 of his series on analysing form, PPM editor Brian Blackwell assesses the impact of making choices on various aspects of form, and following your “subconscious” mind. Last month I talked...
Answer this question: What's the worst task associated with betting on horseracing (or greyhound racing, or harness racing)? I don't know about you, but personally I feel it's the part that deals...
In my previous couple of columns I've begun to explain the quick, timesaving method I use to simplify doing the form for a meeting. First of all I look for losers.
When we talk about punting we have to, alas, talk about illogicality and irrational thinking. We must talk about cashing the small bets and losing the big ones, about catching little 'fish' and mi...
This series on long-term strategies will help you finish up well in front. Why throw away a percentage of your betting bank every year on hopeless causes? We have some suggestions as to how your ...