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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 ...
MELBOURNE Cup legend Bart Cummings is already preparing his arsenal for a 13th Melbourne Cup - and Star Ripper could be a big gun, reports Ray Thomas in the Daily Telegraph.His report adds: Star Ri...
KING of the kids Gerald Ryan says he's barely scratched the surface of his group of promising youngsters, reports Matt Stewart in the Melbourne Herald-Sun.His report says: Ryan has been the trainer...
David Payne is enjoying a vintage run with his two-year-olds but that hasn't converted to an increased number of babies for next season.The former champion South African trainer estimated his young...
Prominent owner Nick Moraitis has enjoyed great success with the progeny of Zabeel (NZ), most noticeably Horse Of The Year Might And Power and dual Group 1 winner Fiumicino, and he may well have hi...
A first-up race - and a jockey - remained unconfirmed for Beneteau despite the three-year-old making a promising start to his autumn campaign.Beneteau, a high-priced yearling purchase in 2009, stoo...
Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...
Two younger relatives of former star sprinter Show A Heart and Doncaster Mile hopeful Hard To Catch will finally make their long-awaited debuts at Doomben.Gondola Girl, a two-year-old half-sister t...
Promising Canberra apprentice Taylor Lovelock-Wiggins has received a medical clearance to make a return to the saddle.He suffered three skull fractures, a crushed eye socket, a broken cheekbone, tw...