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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 ...
Veteran gelding Canary Islands' first win for three years was cause for celebration in more ways than one.They eight-year-old's victory in Wednesday's Champagne Bar Handicap (1550m) at Randwick bro...
Kiss Of The Dragon's past three starts have produced three second placings, and each time he has edged closer to a win.Trainer Rod Craig earmarked a 1300-metre race at his home track of Warwick Far...
He doesn't know where or when, but trainer Joe Pride is adamant Saturday's Festival Stakes contender Miss Keepsake will win another black type race."The 1500 metres is short of her best but if she ...
He missed the Stradbroke Handicap victory due to weight but jockey Chris O'Brien finally got his Group One win aboard Sincero in a thrilling George Main Stakes at Rosehill.The pair had to do it the...
A considerable weight drop should help offset the rise in class for lightly-raced mare Royal Rock who is chasing an overdue win in the Mona Lisa Stakes at Wyong.The four-year-old goes into Sunday's...
She's seven years old and it's been 18 months since she won a race but Moderna just can't convince her trainer she is ready for life as a broodmare."I keep waiting for her to put in a couple of bad...
from RACING POST in Hong KongAmbitious Dragon's Hong Kong Mile win last month was an overdue international success, and the Tony Millard-trained six-year-old should take another step in the Steward...
A rousing gallop by Sydney Cup contender Zavite has trainer Anthony Cummings confident he and Damien Oliver can combine for an overdue Group One win this autumn.Oliver rode Zavite last Saturday wee...