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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 ...
Dermot Weld's already in narky mood in time for spring...His Cup raider Galileo's Choice has been hit by travel sickness following his marathon journey to Australia Galileo's Choice touched down in...
CHANNEL 9 and Moonee Valley are embroiled in a Cox Plate telecast tug of war, after the network backed a travel show as a better ratings bet than Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, reports t...
Peter Moody's star stayer Brambles is OUT for the spring after failing to fully recover from travel sickness.Will a French stayer slip right into Cups contention in Adelaide on Saturday? Could be. ...
The prospect of a good track at Randwick on Saturday has trainer Ron Maund believing Ice Chariot can break his long winning drought in the Group Two Chairman's Handicap.So far the Group One winning...
Two Japanese horses are expected to compete in Sydney at the inaugural 'The Championships' next autumn. Ian Mackay, chief executive of the new autumn carnival feature two-day program, said while ...
A look at the results of 54 races on one recent Saturday showed that 36 races (66 per cent) were won by horses whose starting price was 5/1 or under. A total of 45 races (83 per cent) were won by ...
A few weeks ago, I was invited to address a seminar on greyhound racing betting. A handful of keen punters were there to toss around ideas and to have a few drinks (not necessarily in that order)....
Damien Oliver will travel to Sydney on Wednesday to provide evidence at a Racing NSW inquiry related to Kathy O’Hara’s fall in the ATC Australian Oaks . O’Hara’s mount Single Gaze stumbled...
FOUR-TIME premiership-winning Victorian jockey Craig Williams is back. The 34-year-old with a wealth of international experience returns to riding at Flemington today after another successful stint...