A Little Deep Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

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...

Deep Field lost his unbeaten record at his sixth start and first run at Group 1 level in Saturday’s $500,000 Lightning Stakes (1000m) with co-trainer John Hawkes saying he “simply wasn’t good enou...

Multiple Group One winner El Segundo is only weeks away from making his return to racing.Trainer Colin Little says the seven-year-old has responded to stem cell therapy for a tendon injury and has ...

Winter is almost upon us, and with it the challenge of bog tracks and their intrinsic propensity for flukish and downright flummoxing results. Personally, I normally quite enjoy these frosty months...

It's often the 'snippets' of information we remember best when we think about all the various aspects of form. In recent times I've helped collate small items for Firepower newsletters and from th...

The Lee Freedman-trained Zubbaya showed a VRC Oaks program was justified when she broke her maiden status with a tough effort after racing wide at Sandown.Placed at her first four starts, the Sheik...

It's often the 'snippets' of information we remember best when we think about all the various aspects of form. In recent times I've helped collate small items for Firepower newsletters and from th...