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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 ...
Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker is back at trainer Greg Eurell's Cranbourne stables and is all set for a WFA autumn campaign. Eurell says Pinker Pinker is likely to miss the Grp 1 Australian Cup (20...
Kiwi filly on the way...The Allan Sharrock trained filly Shez Sinsational is on target for a tilt at the Grp 1 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm on June 4 after a hard fought 2nd to The Raconteur over...
Enigmatic sprinter Biscayne Bay will get the chance to break his run of outs in Sydney feature races when he tackles the Group Three Missile Stakes at Rosehill.The 1100 metre sprint headlines a str...
Affable Irish trainer Tom Hogan has his dramatically improved bargain buy Gordon Lord Byron set for Sunday's Hong Kong International Mile and hopes the four-year-old's odyssey may then continue on ...
He's ready for another crack! Hong Kong trainer John Moore is planning another Melbourne spring carnival raid. Moore missed out with his 2 runners las year but perhaps he'll be more of a force this...
The raiders start to arrive...Top Singapore mare Jolie's Shinju is the first of a strong team of international horses to arrive for this year's spring carnival. She's now settling in at Sandown's q...
Bouncing back? Sakae Kunieda, the trainer of top Japanese stayer Meiner Kitz (a Melbourne Cup prospect) is apparently keen to 'raid' the spring with his Aussie-bred 3YO Break A Theory. The target w...
Aussie hurdler Gorge will head to the Cheltenham jumps festival next March. The Cheltenham organisers are sponsoring the raid. They reckon it will be great publicity to have an Aussie horse racing ...