Contemporary 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...

I don't mind progress, it's change I don't like...Tradition is out the window with Moonee Valley's $150 million redevelopment plan. The club envisages a longer home straight (in a different positio...

Though he never quite won the hearts of the racing public like his indomitable father did, the supremely talented racehorse Lonhro has transferred his skills to the breeding barn and will be crowne...

AUSTRALIAN racing is suffering a problem shared by most Western countries. As Australians grow taller and heavier, fewer and fewer have the shape and size to be jockeys and trackwork riders, and tr...

Speaking at his pre-season press briefing at Sha Tin Racecourse last Saturday (Sept 1), the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Chief Executive Officer Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges outlined the Club's commitme...

In last month’s PPM we listed and scrutinised a number of common pitfalls and mistakes made by the average punter. We also re-examined a number of racing’s so called golden rules of the past, to...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...