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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, ...
Super Saturday became saturated as a torrential hailstorm flooded Flemington and washed out two of the biggest events on the Australian racing calendar.Jockey Damien Oliver said he hadn't seen anyt...
Should the Newmarket Hdcp been allowed to go ahead at Flemington on Saturday? It seems clear that stewards were dicing with extreme danger in running the big sprint only minutes before a massive ha...
Two of Australia's top races have been postponed until next week after a torrential storm flooded Flemington racecourse within 20 minutes.Jockeys agreed they were lucky that one of the three Group ...
King Pulse will have his first fast gallop at Flemington on Tuesday as he is readied for a remarkable comeback to racing.The talented galloper suffered career threatening injuries when a freak hail...
Multiple Group One winner El Segundo will target the Group One George Ryder Stakes after a mystifying first-up performance in the Newmarket Handicap earlier this month.Trainer Colin Little said he ...
Trainer Danny O'Brien believes the week's delay in the running of the $1 million Australian Cup at Flemington will be to the benefit of Barbaricus.The grey was to back up a week after his third-up ...
Sydney's most popular racehorse Hot Danish brought the carnival to a fitting finale with a stunning victory in the last Group One race of the autumn, the All-Aged Stakes.The jury is still out on th...