There is no royal road to profits in horse racing — you have to do at least some work. Ratings are that work: measuring what a racehorse can actually do and writing it down as a number you can compare. This is how one of Australia's top ratings men does it, in seven rules.
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If you want to know how to win at horse racing through steady, sensible form study — not hype, and not luck — this episode is about turning what you see in the form guide into a figure that means something next week.
What you'll learn:
• Why time and distance are the only absolutes in racing — and why raw speed is a starting point, not an answer
• The daily track variant: why a raw time is worth nothing at all until you allow for it
• The two lists of things standing between a horse's innate ability and the result on the day
• What sets the day's track bias — the state of the track, the weather, the wind, and the run from the start to the first turn
• Why he bets fast to dead and puts every saved bet into a special bank instead of chasing the rain
• The weight angle: why it can take as much as 10kg to change a result all things being equal, and why all things are never equal
• What an 'edge' really is, why the average punter hasn't got one, and why Lady Luck is just another word for it
• Barriers: why the 1800m start at Eagle Farm makes a wide draw travel further than an inside one This episode is built on an article George Tafe wrote for Practical Punting in May 1988 — the first of two. The horses are long gone; the method hasn't aged a day.
📘 FREE e-book — "The Ratings Game — Part 1": download it free and keep the full method beside you every race day 👉
pp.practicalpunting.com.au/ratings-game-p1/