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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 ...
Key issues are surfacing in the long drawn-out Danny Nikolic case...A ruling against the jockey could mean a 'gag' being placed on media interviews by jockeys. It also could mean they would have to...
The whip crisis...Seems like some big-name trainers are in 'full support' of the jockeys against the new whip rule...providing it doesn't inconvenience them or cost them a few dollars. The jockeys ...
The NSW Trainers Association (NSWTA) has thrown its support behind the jockeys' bid to have the controversial whip rules amended.Jockeys around the country walked off the job on Thursday after the ...
ARB chief Bob Bentley has dismissed the participation of owners, trainers and breeders in 'peace talks' to settle the whip crisis. In what will be seen as a contemptuous slap in the face for some o...
The Australian Jockeys Association will launch a major drive to have the controversial new whip laws amended next month when it meets members of the Australian Racing Board (ARB). A spokesman says:...
Even in an age when personal privacy is being crushed by governments and big corporations, the suggestion that jockeys should have their phones tapped in a bid to weed out corruption is a dangerous...
AUSTRALIAN racing is suffering a problem shared by most Western countries. As Australians grow taller and heavier, fewer and fewer have the shape and size to be jockeys and trackwork riders, and tr...
I was going to follow up my trainer blog tomorrow, or even Saturday morning, but as I will be chauffering a punting mate from Queensland this weekend and time may be an issue I thought I would have...
The whip rules saga has moved to another weird level with Chief NSW stipe Ray Murrihy warning jockeys that they could not rely on compensation from owners or trainers for breaking the controversial...
A rebellion is brewing against Racing NSW....The board and CEO Peter V'landys have been hit with a vote of no confidence by NSW trainers. Members of the NSW Trainers Association met on Monday night...