Beyond Brave 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...

Speed-it's the main ingredient in greyhound racing. Sometimes, I feel, we place too much emphasis on speed and times, but I know there are many greyhound followers who claim it is the 'one and onl...

Can any Practical Punting Monthly readers remember back to the 'dark' days before 1985, when there wasn't such a magazine as this? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? In those bygone days, pu...

There are certain key factors any punter must use when betting trifectas. One is to use “banker” selections; the other is to always throw in horses at good odds. It’s a sensible thing to avoid ma...

There are certain key factors any punter must use when betting trifectas. One is to use “banker” selections; the other is to always throw in horses at good odds. It’s a sensible thing to avoid ma...

There are certain key factors any punter must use when betting trifectas. One is to use “banker” selections; the other is to always throw in horses at good odds. It’s a sensible thing to avoid ma...

Times can be a tricky conveyance in the horseracing game but if you are going to follow them in anyway you must use times on the same day as your guide. At Flemington last Saturday the Group 3 Auri...