Amamus Horse

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...

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...

One area where many punters find a problem picking winners is on rain affected tracks. The winners often come from nowhere to win at big odds. If you were to apply a little body language to your p...

In this final article in my PPM series, I will complete the picture of the horse and put some colour into the image I've been building by stepping back a little and taking in the whole scene of th...

One-time sprinter Summarise has found a new lease of life as a stayer, all thanks to his swimming skills.Originally raced by Darley, the Grafton Cup hopeful won two races over sprint trips before h...

Littorio's win in the $2.25 million The BMW at Rosehill on Saturday was an emotional occasion for connections of the stayer, with trainer Nigel Blackiston dedicating the performance to one of the h...

Littorio's win in the $2.25 million The BMW at Rosehill on Saturday was an emotional occasion for connections of the stayer, with trainer Nigel Blackiston dedicating the performance to one of the h...

Battlefield has cemented his status as one of racing's rising stars, becoming the first three-year-old to win the Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton in more than a decade.Grand sprinter Cangronde ...