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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, ...
UK trainer Venetia Williams' Herefordshire stable has welcomed Australian chaser Ginolad, whose last run saw him finish sixth in the rich Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan. In Australia, nine-year-old G...
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Racing NSW reports: Following an interview on Monday at Racing NSW Offices including Mark Newnham, stable foreman for licensed trainer Mrs Gai Waterhouse, and apprentice, Winona Costin, assisted ...
Nominations for the 2015 Caulfield Cup, released on August 4: http://cdn.racing.com/~/media/racing/files/2015-caulfield-cup-nominations.pdf?la=en
Berry, Berry good...Top apprentice Tommy Berry has joined the Gai Waterhouse team as her #2 stable rider. TB says: 'Gai asked me last week if I could be number two rider for her and I said yes that...
Chad Schofield will resume riding at Moonee Valley on Saturday after passing his final serious test. Schofield attended a concussion test at Racing Victoria on Monday, a standard procedure for an...