Bailed 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...

Just what is going on at the highest levels of racing in Victoria? In The Age it's now being reported that Racing Victoria had to be 'bailed out' by country racing with $4 million in September. Cou...

Chris Symons will make a timely return from suspension to ride lightly-raced three-year-old Red Rain in the Sandown Guineas after James Winks jumped off the colt to ride Amah Rock.Winks has ridden ...

Leading trainer John Size has formed a powerful combination with Brett Prebble this season and he has turned to the Australian to put the record straight in the Lusitano Challenge Cup (1,400m) at ...

Happy New Year!Not too many features for you, Just a handful I believe we might keep thinking about for 2010.1. The whip.Well, my information is that most horses won't race at their ultimate speed ...

He's lean and mean but most importantly he's happy.Four-year-old Giresun has proven a handful for trainer Peter Snowden and has even been known to wear a muzzle to stop him savaging people around t...

A maiden win at Randwick on Wednesday is the first step towards an ambitious autumn campaign for Sea Lord with the AJC Australian Derby in trainer David Payne's plans.The colt lugged 59 kilograms t...