Clinched 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...

DAMIEN Oliver clinched the ride on Dandino in next month’s Hong Kong Vase when he rang trainer Marco Botti in England. The conversation swung Oliver over the line for the ride in the $2 million G...

Magic Millions update...Last week's MM Wyong 3YO Stakes winner Safusa has all but clinched a berth in Jan's $1 million Gold Coast MM 3YO Guineas (1400m). With almost $100,000 in earnings the Elusiv...

No surprise...Smart sprinter Catapulted bolted home in the $126,000 Straight Six at Flemington on Saturday and has clinched a trip to Brisbane as part of trainer Mark Kavanagh's winter team. Kav sa...

HERE come the Kiwis. The first air cargo of New Zealand contenders for the Brisbane winter carnival arrives on Wednesday and includes two familiar names in Firebolt and The Hombre, reports Bart Sin...

An old ploy trainer Bevan Laming used prior to St Basil's Stradbroke Handicap victory four years ago paid off handsomely when emerging stayer Crossthestart clinched an interstate trip at Eagle Farm...

Leading Australian bookmaker Alan Eskander believes David Hayes is the most likely trainer to end Peter Moody’s dominance as Victoria’s premier trainer in season 2013-14.