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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 ...
Big and Little - Both Ways of Looking.You can bet a lot to win a little, or a little to win a lot. For the average punter there are merits in each approach.If you bet a lot to win a little, it is l...
It took Bart Cummings a few years to figure out the right type of horse needed to win the Melbourne Cup but once he got it right, he couldn't be stopped.Cummings claimed an historic 12th victory in...
Trainer Gerald Ryan continued his domination of the summer features when Tommifrancs took out the Listed Tattersall's Club Cup at Randwick.The Ryan-trained Ready To Lift won the Christmas Cup-Summe...
Former champion New Zealand jockey Michael Walker has taken the first step towards resurrecting his career in Melbourne with a winner at Moonee Valley.Walker was thrilled with Saturday's win by Ven...
There are many ways by which you can turn a field of horses into a field of horses PLUS estimated 'true' prices. There are mechanical ways and 'instinctive' ways. In this article, I'll be looking...
Robbie Laing is looking to recent history to boost his confidence about the Victoria Derby prospects of Commonage Close, an outsider in more ways than one for Saturday's Classic.The trainer drew ba...
PEOPLE AND THEIR WAYSI'm making this a regular series, so here's the first. Every so often we'll drop one into our meetings.This one concerns a fellow I shared a bus ride with. I usually leave my c...
A change of scenery at a new stable has turned around the career of the former Lee Freedman-trained four-year-old Asphalt Jungle.Still a maiden and a noted rogue when he joined the Bill and Symon W...