Always Easy 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...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...

Patience is Always a VirtueI had just finished writing a page for the next magazine and a horrifying thought struck me:"By the time some people read this they'll have lost a great deal of money fol...

Gold Coast three-year-old Biggles burst into Magic Millions Guineas contention after claiming the Listed Gold Edition Plate on protest at Eagle Farm.The Desleigh Forster-trained Easy Running ($5.50...

Big Time BettingWhen I was doing something entirely different, and I was oh so many years younger, I worked with a chap whose wife always backed the winner of the Melbourne Cup.She had to. She alwa...

I’ve lost count of the number of times people have asked me how to isolate “easy” races on which to bet. The quick answer most expect is for me to tell them to bet in races with only a handful of ...

James McDonald described the improvement of It's A Dundeel as scary following his barrier trial win at Royal Randwick on Monday, reports Racing Network.  It's A Dundeel settled midfield in the 12...