Chasing Archer 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...

Protectionist  will have to carry the top weight of 58kg if he is to defend his title in this year’s Emirates Melbourne Cup  (3200m). The  Kris Lees -trained stayer has been allocated the joint t...

Sepoy is the long odds-on favourite to win Saturday's Group Two Danehill Stakes at Flemington but trainer Peter Snowden says it will be no easy task.The topweight with 58kg under the set weights pl...

The field is finalised and now the task ahead is to find which horse will win this year's Melbourne Cup.With 24 horses it is easy to get confused but using Cup history can help eliminate the also-r...