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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, ...
Tim Clark is having a career-best season in Sydney and the jockey can also play a starring role in Brisbane on Saturday.The in-form hoop will partner Oaks contender Savannah's Choice in the Group O...
from RACING POST HKJockey Tim Clark breaks new ground at Happy Valley tonight when he rides Simple in the Hip Wo Handicap (1,000m) and the grey should have everything set up to make the Australian'...
In-form Sydney jockey Tim Clark's hopes of snaring another Group One have been given a lifeline with his booking for Zero Rock in the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Clark ...
JOCKEY-room go-to man Tim Clark has picked up the ride on Border Rebel, which is out to go back-to-back in the Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford today, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. It says: T...
Tim Clark has been booked to ride Hot Danish's little sister Hot 'N' Leica at Rosehill on Saturday in a move sure to create interest during the final metropolitan meeting of the season.Clark had an...
Tim Clark is in countdown mode, starting with Tuesday's Randwick meeting, as he prepares for a Hong Kong riding stint.Clark will call a temporary halt on what has been a flourishing Sydney career a...
Tim Clark is on the verge of achieving his season goal at Canterbury on Wednesday with more than two months to spare.The in-form jockey set himself the target of 50 city winners at the start of thi...
A revised weather forecast will be music to the ears of Tim Clark as he prepares for his first Derby Day ride on his flagship horse.Sydney-based Clark has never ridden during Flemington's famous Cu...
Young gun apprentice Tim Bell could get the opportunity to ride in a Group One race at Randwick on Saturday if Border Rebel runs in the Galaxy.Trainer Sue Grills said she would wait until she studi...