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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 ...
At last - we saw the 'real' So You Think in the UK. His Eclipse victory was hard-fought and courageous. Little wonder he is now the early 7/2 favorite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, though whet...
Top bookies are impressed by So You Think - so impressed that they are playing very safe with the superstar. Betstar's Alan Eskander says SYT's Yalumba win was just as impactful on Melbourne Cup be...
Betstar's Alan Eskander says Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes favourite Whobegotyou is under the odds with most outlets and he's happy to take on Mark Kavanagh's stable star. While most bookies have Whobeg...
Bring it on...Spring 2012 fever has got away to an early start! Betstar has released its opening markets on next year's three spring "majors" and Alan Eskander says Mark Kavanagh's unbeaten filly A...
Betting turnaround...Bletchingly winner Shoot Out has replaced So You Think as early favourite for the Cox Plate. But the big question now centres on how much weight he'll get for the Caulfield and...
Cash in on Bart? Master blaster Bart Cummings has a strong list of runners lined up for Melbourne's big spring "majors" and Betstar's Alan Eskander is giving punters the chance to back their opinio...
Latest betting market on the Cox Plate, from Betstar, has Whobegotyou on top at $2.60, well clear of Heart of Dreams $7.00.COX PLATE10. Whobegotyou 2.60 11. Heart Of Dreams 7.00 09. Speed Gifted 9....
Star colt Pierro remains favorite for the Cox Plate with Betstar despite his shock defeat in the Caulfield Guineas. He has eased from $2.20 to $3 but Betstar's Alan Eskander says Pierro was a sitti...
Emerging Kiwi superstar Ocean Park is the big shortener in Cox Plate betting after a sensational win in the Grp 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield. Betstar chief Alan Eskander was more than impressed,...