Another Whisper Horse

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...

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...

History shows there is only one factor you need to worry about in the VRC Oaks and that is the name of the favourite. In the last 25 years a 1 unit investment on the favourite has yielded returns o...

Gillian Heinrich has postponed Sunset Affair's bid to become her third Magic Millions Classic contender next month.The Gold Coast based Heinrich won the Magic Millions Classic on her home track wit...

Well-bred entire Columbus is out to make an impression on his hefty price tag this spring after an interrupted start to his racing career.The four-year-old son of Redoute's Choice and Group One-win...

GAI Waterhouse’s import Fiorente could snatch Turnbull Stakes favouritism from Puissance De Lune, says TAB.com.au.  Just minutes after betting opened on Saturday’s Flemington feature, one punter ...

The May carnival at The 'Bool is the stuff of legend among Australia's racing fraternity. Indeed, in equine circles, the name 'Warrnambool' signifies not harpoon, lance nor oily cries of 'Chimney's...

There are a few things, only a few, in this life that can be reasonably counted on. I know that's not a new perspective, and the ones we usually hear about are death and taxes. But racing also h...