Abated Horse

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...

Team Hawkes  has ruled out the possibility of running  Divine Prophet  in the Cox Plate, preferring to send their  Caulfield Guineas  winner to the paddock. Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes said the Choi...

Equine influenza (EI) delayed the start of Storm Kite's career but the mare is off and running much to the delight of trainer Ron Quinton.The Honours List four-year-old is having her second start i...

Equine influenza (EI) delayed the start of Storm Kite's career but the mare is off and running much to the delight of trainer Ron Quinton.The Honours List four-year-old is having her second start i...

Sydneysiders get their chance to see Winx return to the track  this Saturday  in the Apollo Stakes with TAB installing the champion mare as a dominant $1.20 favourite as she looks to stretch her...

Almandin ($15) is third favourite with TAB to win the Sydney Cup and become just the fifth horse to win the Melbourne and Sydney Cup in the same season. Antonio Guiseppe and Kinema ($11) are on t...

TAB has opened Winx as the $1.15 favorite for  Saturday’s  Caulfield Stakes where the super mare will have only two challengers as she bids for her 12 th  consecutive victory. Black Heart Bar...