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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 ...
There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...
In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...
Australian raider Coniston Bluebird has won the New Zealand Derby by a bob of the head over Down the Road at Ellerslie.Trained by Bede Murray on the NSW south coast, Coniston Bluebird came back aft...
New Zealand-based Australian jockey Gavin McKeon is in an induced coma after suffering suspected head injuries in a race fall.McKeon was riding at Otaki on Thursday when his mount clipped heels and...
Given he's been buying horses from New Zealand since 1958, it's no surprise Bart Cummings is almost regarded as an honorary Kiwi.As of Monday, it's official. He's now the first foreigner to be give...
Bacchanal Woman confirmed a trip to New Zealand for a tilt at Group One glory with her commanding victory in the Listed National Sprint at Canberra on Sunday.Trainer Keith Dryden is aiming the mare...
A trip to New Zealand to try to snare an elusive Group One victory is next on the agenda for sprinter Swift Alliance, winner of Saturday's Listed Razor Sharp at Randwick.The five-year-old made ligh...
Short-priced favourite Jimmy Choux has lived up to his reputation to capture the Group One $NZ2.2 million New Zealand Derby at a rain-sodden Ellerslie in Auckland.The Thorn Park colt, perfectly rid...
Atomic Force may have missed out on an invitation to Hong Kong but his connections are eyeing other overseas options following a last-stride victory at Canterbury on Saturday.The Group One Galaxy w...