Better Show 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...

CHANNEL 9 and Moonee Valley are embroiled in a Cox Plate telecast tug of war, after the network backed a travel show as a better ratings bet than Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, reports t...

Can you actually win at punting? Yes — but not the way most punters go about it. In this one, Gordon works through a classic Practical Punting piece on what it really takes: the professional's mind...

The Black Caviar show rolls into town on Saturday with trainer Peter Moody leaving no stone unturned for the mare's Sydney debut.Moody reckons Black Caviar has all the bases covered even though the...

I've Got Talent is expected to make amends for a disappointing last-start effort at Rosehill on Saturday.The Guy Walter-trained five-year-old lines up in the Bacardi Breezer Handicap (1500m).He is ...

I've Got Talent is expected to make amends for a disappointing last-start effort at Rosehill on Saturday.The Guy Walter-trained five-year-old lines up in the Bacardi Breezer Handicap (1500m).He is ...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.