Complete Unknown 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...

BLACK Caviar might be rated a $1.22 chance, but she faces an unknown factor at her Sydney debut, and history suggests that even superstars can struggle the first time they race the opposite way for...

Chad Schofield’s return is not expected until January, but a more accurate timeline will not be known for a week, reports Racing Network. Schofield’s manager Mark Van Triet said a “realistic” tar...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

What's the most important factor in horse racing? Is it speed or pace, pedigree or trainer, the jockey? Nope. The most important factor is luck. Luck is defined as "good or bad fortune acquired u...

Final chapter...Dick Francis, great jumps jockey and best-selling author of racing crime novels, has died at 89. He retired from riding in 1957 to begin his writing career with his autobiography Th...