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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 ...
Sunday’s Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes will be run on what Track Manager Jason Kerr has described as “perfect ground”. The Caulfield highlight will see the rail position back in the true positi...
Brian Mayfield-Smith is hopeful that Orange County can overcome a wide gate to hold his Group One-winning form and become the third horse in five years to complete the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes-Toor...
TAB Sportsbet is reporting good early backing for Queenslander Woorim in Sat's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield. He's currently on the second line of betting. Smart Missile is the early fav de...
Comeback mare J'adane has managed to sneak into the field for Saturday's Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield for what will be just her second appearance in a year.The five-year-old old ...
Hong Kong assault...Can a couple of gallopers from Hong Kong dominate the spring? Who knows - but shrewd HK trainer John Moore obviously reckons his pair, Mighty High and Silver Grecian, can do jus...
Gun Sydney three-year-old Smart Missile needs to overcome the visitor's draw to give trainer Anthony Cummings his second Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes win in three years.Cummings declared the ...
Punters have quickly targeted Awesome Rock for the Underwood Stakes. TAB reports that 60% of all early bets has been on Awesome Rock ($8.00). The winner of the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes opened at ...
Rubiscent will make history should he win Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400 metres on the anniversary of his only Group One and weight-for-age victory in last year's 1800m Underwood Sta...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has a real affinity with the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes and at Caulfield on Saturday will be chasing his seventh win in the Group One feature aboard Master Of Design.Oli...