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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 ...
Red Cadeaux will not run in the race he was initially sent to Australia to contest, the $1.6 million Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m). But the three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up will still be at Rand...
Trainer Kelso Wood is considering a gear change for Magic Millions Classic favourite Sizzling ahead of the colt's next assignment in the Group Three BJ McLachlan Stakes at Doomben on Saturday week....
Hugh Bowman will not lodge a further appeal over the suspension he copped at the Hollindale Stakes meeting at the Gold Coast. It means he will miss the ride on Doomben Cup fav Metal Bender on Satur...
Local trainer Sandra O'Sullivan scored the biggest success of her long career when underrated sprinter Carry To Fortune recorded a scorching win in the $100,000 Bat Out Of Hell Handicap at the Gold...
The looming showdown between Golden Slipper winner Phelan Ready and rising stars Denman and Trusting has prompted Sydney Turf Club racing manager John Nicholson to predict Saturday's $1 million Gol...
Jockey Jim Cassidy will have operations on both knees and his right ankle later this month as the grand slam-winning rider steels himself for the final chapter of his long and colourful riding care...
From Racing Post in Hong KongDarren Beadman waited until the 11th hour but ultimately came down on the side of youth in choosing to partner Collection in Sunday's Citi Champions & Chater Cup.Beadma...
Promising three-year-old Man From Oz will take an important step towards a winter carnival campaign when he lines up from a horror barrier at Doomben on Saturday.Man From Oz, who will be ridden by ...