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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, ...
Surprise...Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden is going to Hong Kong where he'll clash again with Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux in the Grp 1 Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin on Dec 11. Last year's Melbourne ...
What a great way to end the Hong Kong racing season...Our tipster Sir Conduit gave 2 tips for Wednesday's final Sha Tin meeting and nailed ALGARVE $5.70! The HK season closes out now until early Se...
Boom jockey William Pike has arrived in Hong Kong with the West Australian jockey's premiership already in his keeping.Pike, 23, answered an SOS from Hong Kong which is running short of riders for ...
Australia’s only representative for the Hong Kong International Races, Linton, flew to Hong Kong yesterday, reports Racing Network. He will have 13 days to prepare for the $US2.2 million Hong Kong...
Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker is back at trainer Greg Eurell's Cranbourne stables and is all set for a WFA autumn campaign. Eurell says Pinker Pinker is likely to miss the Grp 1 Australian Cup (20...
Hong Kong is at it again - waving the arrogance stick at Australia. The Hong Kong Jockey Club has denied an invitation for Australian Grp I winner Atomic Force to contest the Hong Kong Internationa...
Jockey Tye Angland will return to Hong Kong this weekend in the hope of resuming riding early next month....The former champion Sydney apprentice has been at home recovering from injuries sustained...
Top galloper Duporth is likely to race overseas next season. Trainer Anthony Cummings is eyeing the rich Hong Kong International meeting in December plus major sprints at Royal Ascot. Duporth retur...
HUGH Bowman and Tommy Berry have both accepted contracts to ride in Hong Kong when the Sydney autumn carnival concludes. They were granted 10 week licences to ride until the end of the Hong Kong ...