Cathvalanna 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...

New Zealand trainer Allan Sharrock is eyeing the Melbourne Cup with star Kiwi mare Shez Sinsational who has claimed a heart-stopping victory in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.She...

In Part 1 of this series, I explained the new ratings-based handicapping system as it will operate in New South Wales. This article will give an oversight into how the ratings-based handicapping...

Last month, we went through some of the more depressing ways of losing your money. This month I'd like to take a more optimistic view and to consider some ways of doing our very level best not to ...

Last month, we went through some of the more depressing ways of losing your money. This month I'd like to take a more optimistic view and to consider some ways of doing our very level best not to ...

They seem to come round much faster, don't they? Of course I'm talking about the years. I remember as a kid that Christmas never seemed to come, yet before you know it these days we are heading to...

If you are going to have a pre-post bet on the Melbourne Cup, the time to have it is debatable. You can be a lucky Brian Blackwell and pick something at astronomical odds, and who is to say that B...