Contemporary Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

Now that race clubs are no longer tolerating broadcasting of on-course bookmaker fluctuations, any system we can find to provide an idea of what's happening on-course has to be of advantage to the...

from RACING POST HKPunters will be looking for an easy recipe for finding winners on the treacherous Happy Valley "C+3" course tonight and keeping it Simple looks the key to the Mercury Handicap (1...

The likelihood of a firm track threatens to derail the chances of past winners Sentire and Daka's Gem in the Ballarat Cup.Both stayers are noted wet trackers and their hopes are tempered with the m...

Measures to ensure horses and jockeys are protected from the forecast heatwave conditions will be in place at Rosehill on Saturday.The mercury is tipped to hit 41 degrees in Sydney's west where the...

The likelihood of a firm track threatens to derail the chances of past winners Sentire and Daka's Gem in the Ballarat Cup.Both stayers are noted wet trackers and their hopes are tempered with the m...

Godolphin's Melbourne stable continued to shine on Australia Day, as  Cohesion  claimed the Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Preview  (1000m) for colts and geldings, reports racing.com. Jockey  Ben Melham ...