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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 ...
Warrnambool trainer Aaron Purcell is chasing his biggest flat win in the Group Two Sandown Guineas with Yorkshire Lad who has exceeded stable expectations this campaign.Purcell, best known as the t...
So You Think's big win in the Memsie Stks has shot him to favoritism for the Cox Plate, which he won last year as a 3YO. The latest IASbet.com market has the Bart Cummings trained 4YO at 3/1 ($4.00...
David Hayes has pencilled in next month's Memsie Stakes as the first-up assignment for his exciting comeback galloper Jet Away . After an eye-catching fourth in last year’s Caulfield Cup, Jet A...
Big Memsie Stakes looms...There's a likely crackerjack field lining up for Sat's Grp 2 race at Caulfield. Melbourne Cup winner Efficient heads the noms. He's only raced once since last year's Turnb...
Astute New Zealand trainer Murray Baker is thinking about changing his original plans with Cox Plate favourite It’s A Dundeel.
Dual stakes winning sprinter Midnight Mustang is set for a showdown with Mic Mac and El Segundo in the Group Two Memsie Stakes later this month.Trainer Tony Noonan said the six-year-old had earned ...
Ex-NZer King's Rose was heavily backed early in betting for the Grp 2 1400m Memsie Stakes at Caulfield and justified the early money when it narrowly defeated Heart Of Dreams. Opening at $8.50 last...
Over the years, more than a few racing fans have been confused with the Lawrence Stakes and Memsie Stakes.Both are Group 2 events run at weight-for-age over 1400 metres at Caulfield, generally duri...
Mick Price was out of his chair and had his first major win in sight.It was 2006 and stable star Pompeii Ruler was in front in the Cox Plate with 50 metres to run."I got up off my chair and gave hi...