Bell Serenade 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...

Former Victorian Craig Stott knew he was taking the risk of a lifetime and was ignoring his mother's advice when he ventured into farming and training almost 20 years ago.Stott, who saddles up Myst...

A BIG BELT - OR A BIG CON?I just watched an unraced two year old backed from around fifteens to $2.35 for the first at Flemington on Saturday.I guess every mug in town will now hop on the bandwagon...

An emotional Blake Shinn made a dream start to his riding comeback for himself and his family when Tellora romped away with a seven length win at Sandown.The 2008 Melbourne Cup winning rider was di...

Cattle grazier Michael Lucey is counting down the days to starting a new chapter in his life as a trainer after watching one of his breeding ventures, Trace Of Silver, score a memorable win at Doom...

One dream was realised and another was on the horizon for Con Karakatsanis after the young trainer won Saturday's Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm with Black Piranha.Black Piranha, who w...

One dream was realised and another was on the horizon for Con Karakatsanis after the young trainer won Saturday's Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm with Black Piranha.Black Piranha, who w...