Cassandra 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...

Robert Smerdon’s unbeaten filly  Fontiton  stayed at the top of Blue Diamond betting after drawing barrier one at today’s special function. The Group 1 $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) will...

The Robert Smerdon trained filly – Fontiton has drawn barrier 1 and remains the $2.50 favourite for Saturday’s Blue Diamond Stakes.    

Fontiton  remains the horse to beat in the Blue Diamond according to Mark Zahra after the Robert Smerdon-trained filly won Monday’s Preview for fillies at Sportingbet Park, reports Racing Networ...

THREE-YEAR-OLD filly Petits Filous will face her stiffest test to date when she lines up in the $450,000 Group 1 Moir Stakes over 1000m at Moonee Valley  on Friday  night.   The Ciaron Mah...

VICTORIA'S leading trainer Peter Moody spent much of last week planning for the future with a $3 million-plus spending spree on yearlings on the Gold Coast, but this week it's down to immediate bus...

There have been a couple of good old-fashioned betting plunges on tomorrow’s Group 3 $150,000 Chairman’s Stakes (1000m) at Sandown Hillside. Punters have tuned into two unraced two-year-olds call...