Cantankerous 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...

Special steps will be taken with well-bred two-year-old The Fairy's Kiss to ensure her race debut at Caulfield goes as smoothly as possible.The daughter of Elusive Quality has provided trainer Mick...

He's lean and mean but most importantly he's happy.Four-year-old Giresun has proven a handful for trainer Peter Snowden and has even been known to wear a muzzle to stop him savaging people around t...

Pakenham trainer Rick Harrison is painting a promising future for discarded galloper Van Gogh who he bought for $2,000 in the hope that he could give him a home town Cup win next February.The five-...

Pakenham trainer Rick Harrison is painting a promising future for discarded galloper Van Gogh who he bought for $2,000 in the hope that he could give him a home town Cup win next February.The five-...

AFTER a poor start cost her any chance of victory in last Saturday's Queensland Oaks, the John Sadler-trained Heidilicious will barrier trial at Eagle Farm this morning in a last-minute bid to forc...

Jockey Kathy O'Hara has declared Ofcourseican her best chance yet of netting her first Group One win.O'Hara rides the Ron Quinton-trained mare in Saturday's $600,000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) at Ros...