Better Class 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...

Bel Esprit gelding Spirited Addition will try to atone for a luckless debut and prove he is up to better-class races when he steps out at Sandown's transferred meeting at Mornington.Trainer David H...

There are two words that should hold more significance for punters than most other two words in the English language. I have always called them the "QC" of my racetrack investment and see them as ...

When it comes to the class division in racing, the average punter usually has a lot of questions to ask. What is the higher class of race - a OMW (no metropolitan win) or a Class 6? How many Maid...

An autumn stakes campaign is the ambition for progressive stayer Shezaten who again steps up in class at Sandown.Trainer John Sadler is hoping the four-year-old can improve off the back her past tw...

Example: Runyonese ran 3rd of 12 over 1600m in Maiden class at Bendigo on May 18. The 4yo was beaten 2.6 lengths and was sent out at 5/1. At his next start, a couple of weeks later, he went to th...

First off, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steven McAllister, and I am the nephew of the late George Tafe. Many of you would have read George's articles in the past, and hopefully fou...