Anthony's Best 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...

Major Australian thoroughbred investor Patinack Farm has confirmed a split with leading Sydney trainer Anthony Cummings."Only horses that are raced in a partnership between us and others will remai...

There is little room for family loyalty in Group races and that is just as well for trainer Anthony Cummings.Cummings is the son of master trainer Bart and the pair enjoy a friendly racetrack rival...

The Lee Freedman-trained Zubbaya showed a VRC Oaks program was justified when she broke her maiden status with a tough effort after racing wide at Sandown.Placed at her first four starts, the Sheik...

Apprentice Brenton Avdulla believes he is ready to start competing on a level playing field with Sydney's senior jockeys.The 19-year-old needs just one more city win to outride his claim and is con...

Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...

Glyn Schofield knows the hallmarks of a good horse and had no hesitation recommending that the exciting Manawanui be given a shot at Saturday's Group One $1 million Golden Rose.Connections of the R...