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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 ...
The Mornington Cup looks like a sweet option for Pat Carey's impressive Sandown Hillside winner Cedarberg. He swept right back to form with a strong win in Wed's New Saturday Age Cup. It's obvious ...
Trainer Pat Carey is hoping two-year-old filly Angela's Dream will turn out half as good as her Ballarat Cup-winning half-brother Varsilayos.The daughter of Bel Esprit makes her first city appearan...
Finding a way for diminutive mare Influential Miss to increase her value beyond the racetrack won't be trainer Pat Carey's only focus this week.Mornington-based Carey is weighing up a black-type op...
Trainer Pat Carey won't commit Gondokoro to a Cups campaign despite her dominant win...
MORNINGTON trainer Pat Carey is under no illusion that his task of reconnecting former top-line sprinter Cannonball with the form that made the six-year-old an international success in the past thr...
Pat makes up his mind...Trainer Pat Carey confirms that BMW winner Cedarberg will run in the Queen Elizabeth on Saturday in preference to the Sydney Cup. He says: 'It's easier to shorten him up and...
Pat Carey will wait until later in the week before deciding if former United States sprinter Cannonball runs in the Doveton Stakes.Cannonball had his most recent preparation in the care of Gai Wate...
Trainer Pat Carey is hoping dour mare Our Serena can load up her value as a broodmare in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington.Carey said although the five-year-old was still a city maiden s...
Trainer Pat Carey has no doubts over Ethiopia's Australian Derby credentials despite the gelding heading into the Classic as a maiden.The most inexperienced runner in Saturday's Group One field, Et...
Trainer Pat Carey has confirmed Cannonball will make his stable debut at Caulfield on Saturday but is keeping expectations in check with the former accomplished American sprinter.The six-year-old r...