Catastrophic 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 powerful racing outfit Godolphin Operation is under a cloud

Hong Kong Jockey Club stewards found no rider was to blame for the incident that put jockey Steve Drowne in hospital and resulted in the death of English filly Jwala after an inquiry into the "ca...

Mahmood Al Zarooni has been disqualified for eight years

As the fallout continues following positive drug tests 

Warhorse Casual Pass, who defied veterinarians to make three racing comebacks, has finally been retired with career earnings of almost $1.5 million.Owner David Moodie confirmed the eight-year-old h...

The thoroughbred industry will put its case to vaccinate horses against equine influenza (EI), in the face of strong opposition from government authorities, at a summit in Sydney on Thursday.Austra...