Bad Manners 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...

One of racing's well-publicised bad boys Here De Angels has jockey Jeff Penza convinced a path to redemption will continue in the Ramornie Handicap.Here De Angels is among the favourites to win the...

Stewards have taken the extraordinary step of reallocating the starting gate of noted barrier rogue Here De Angels which will protect champion Black Caviar from potential harm at Moonee Valley.Here...

Tony Millard-trained  Hit The Bid  is in outstanding form and gets a barrier switch that makes him the one to beat in the Peninsula Golden Jubilee Challenge Cup (1,200m) on the all-weather at Sha ...

from HK RACING POSTDennis Yip Chor-hong and jockey Zac Purton have been infrequent partners in the past, but the trainer has turned again to the Australian rider to work the oracle with Groovy in t...

Corey Brown will honour his booking for the Golden Slipper long shot Hot Snitzel.The confirmation of his Slipper ride comes 24 hours after he tried to gain a release from Hot Snitzel to ride the Ba...

Trainer Peter Moody says Black Caviar may have been scratched from the Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley had stewards not taken the unprecedented step to alter the barrier draw.Barrier rogue Here D...