Another Surprise 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...

LIKE A football coach, Mark Kavanagh rarely likes to look too far ahead. But tomorrow, as his reigning Melbourne Cup champion Shocking tackles the group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, Kavanagh wi...

No surprise...Topweight Scenic Shot is OUT of the Perth Cup and will be spelled and then prepared for another Queensland campaign. Trainer Dan Morton withdrew SS from the feature on Monday. He rec...

Another dose of the mighty Americain this time around? Could be. Latest reports say the French stayer, owned by Aussies, may be a surprise runner in the Zipping Classic at Sandown on Saturday week....

Keepin' The Dream, invariably unfashionable with punters, has the statistics on board to say he will revel in his role as a feature race underdog at Hawkesbury.That's the opinion of one of his bigg...

Golden Slipper winning jockey Tommy Berry will be a surprise addition

Stratofortress, who made a name for himself as a stayer with his Newcastle Cup win at his most recent start, is tipped to match it with the sprinters when he resumes on Saturday."He didn't have too...