Breaker Bay 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...

The trifecta is one of racing's toughest bets to crack — but the professionals do it again and again, and it's not luck. In this episode of Practical Punting, Gordon walks you through the killer st...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

Black Opal giant-killer winner You're Canny will not be a late entry for the Golden Slipper. Coonections are going to have a crack at the Grp 1 $500,000 AJC Sires Produce Stks 1400m at Randwick on ...

The pretty Doomben course has a straight of 354 metres. It is the smaller of the two tracks in Brisbane, but try to tell that to anyone watching the final furlong or so of the Doomben Ten Thousa...

Since the introduction of the "you cannot whip a horse any more than X times at spots Y or any other letter" during a race I have been waiting for the inevitable to happen. After the Australian Cup...

He had to do it the hard way but New Zealand gelding The Hombre raced his way into Queensland Derby calculations with a strong staying performance to win Saturday's $125,000 Rough Habit Plate at Do...