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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 ...
Kerrin McEvoy and Darley's hopes of making a clean sweep of this season's juvenile Group Ones rest with talented colt Benfica in Saturday's TJ Smith at Eagle Farm.The Peter Snowden-trained Benfica ...
Patinack Farm's stable jockey Peter Robl switched to another powerful camp in the opening race at Rosehill to ride for Darley trainer Peter Snowden, and the popular jockey did the maroon and white ...
Sepoy is unlikely to be rushed onto the international racing stage despite confirming his dominance of Australian juvenile racing with his Golden Slipper triumph.Talk that Sepoy would join other Au...
Trainer Gerald Ryan believes he has the ammunition in Hot Snitzel to deny Darley a clean sweep of this season's Group One juvenile races.The Peter Snowden-trained Benfica is shooting for Darley's f...
Darley's domination of the feature juvenile races continued on Saturday when Helmet overcame an interrupted preparation to win the Group One Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.The colt's half-length...
TRAINER Peter Snowden is poised to complete the Sydney juvenile triple crown if either Helmet or Disputes wins the Group 1 Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday, rep...
Gerald Ryan will rely on Hot Snitzel to repel the Darley two-year-olds in Saturday's BRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm.The trainer admits it will be a tough task with the Peter Snowden-traine...
Lonhro, one of Australian racing's glamour racehorses, is on the verge of being crowned a champion sire.More than seven years since he retired from racing with 11 Group One wins and almost $5.8 mil...
A clean sweep of the major juvenile races in Queensland awaits star Queensland youngster Sizzling following his spectacular win in the Group Two Champagne Classic at Doomben.Sizzling ($1.55 fav) st...