Cool Step 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...

An AJC Australian Oaks nomination instead of an Adelaide campaign goes on the line for Cool Flyer when the bargain-buy filly races at Randwick on Wednesday.Cool Flyer, purchased for $5000 as a year...

Anthony Cummings is plotting a similar program to last spring for Zavite after questioning whether he is good enough to compete in next week's Caulfield Cup.The six-year-old son of Zabeel is among ...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh's chances of winning the $1 million Newmarket Handicap with underrated sprinter Undeniably at Flemington on Saturday will largely rest with a jockey he's never met, reports Th...

English trainer Luca Cumani's Melbourne Cup hopes may rest with recent stable acquisition Basaltico with 2008 runner-up Bauer ruled out by injury.Cumani also trained Purple Moon to run second in th...

Glyn Schofield didn't like the appearance of Manawanui when he first laid eyes on him as a young horse, but he certainly changed his opinion of the gelding once he got on his back.Trained at Warwic...

Most of us will never become professional punters. It may well be our 'dream' existence but the reality is far different. That doesn't mean we can't discipline ourselves to bet in a professional m...