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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 ...
Team Hawkes has ruled out the possibility of running Divine Prophet in the Cox Plate, preferring to send their Caulfield Guineas winner to the paddock. Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes said the Choi...
His stable name is God but trainer Pat Webster believes Thankgodyou'rehere may need some divine intervention to win the Minister's Cup at the Gold Coast.Thankgodyou'rehere's hopes in Saturday's 130...
I wonder if we'll see Michelle Payne riding again? The popular young jockey copped four fractured vertebrae and broken ribs in a nasty fall from the Darren Weir-trained El Divine at Donald on Sunda...
The proven big-race combination of trainer Mike Moroney and jockey Kerrin McEvoy are poised to strike again at Group One level, with Divine Rebel thriving ahead of Saturday's Sydney Cup.Moroney and...
Danny O'Brien won the Blue Diamond Stakes with highly-rated colt Star Witness and on Saturday he'll try to win the Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield with Divine Luck.A beautifully-bred colt, Divine...
As the mighty spring carnival gets underway , PPD Club editor Brian Blackwell is tipping in great form - and he's supremely confident that BIG winners are on the way through October and November....
Sydneysiders get their chance to see Winx return to the track this Saturday in the Apollo Stakes with TAB installing the champion mare as a dominant $1.20 favourite as she looks to stretch her...
TAB has opened Winx as the $1.15 favorite for Saturday’s Caulfield Stakes where the super mare will have only two challengers as she bids for her 12 th consecutive victory. Black Heart Bar...
An impressive win by Viking Hero in Saturday's Alister Clark Stakes at Moonee Valley could sway connections into running the colt in next month's Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington.The Elvs...
Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien will be out to win his second Emirates Stakes with Valedictum who will be contesting the Group One feature for the fourth successive time on his home track on Satur...