Consensus 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...

Zabeel Classic winner Consensus could be bound for Australian shores in the autumn, although trainer  Stephen McKee  conceded she would have to take a step up. Five-year-old mare Consensus overpo...

Many punters rely to a great extent on the 'vital statistics' of racing to guide them into their choice of horse for any particular race. In other words, they are swayed by history into trying to ...

General consensus is that the Racing Appeals Board should have little trouble tossing out those serious charges against Danny Nikolic. Why? Stewards in real-time found nothing wrong with his rides....

Defying the herd? Going against the mainstream? Being a maverick? Dancing to the tune of a different drummer? In punting, few people dare to go against the mass opinion. In this article, Richard H...

Hasselhoof’s reputation as New Zealand racing’s next big thing has been enhanced after a dominant display to win the Group 2 Rich Hill Mile at Ellerslie on Friday. Known by his fans as “The Hoof”...

Robbie Laing has Group 1 aspirations for  Lord Of The Sky , dominant winner of Saturday’s Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. Laing nominated the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400 m) at Caulfield on A...