Crop 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...

Vintage Crop, the first import to win the Melbourne Cup back in 1993, has today died in Ireland. He was 27 years old and had been the oldest living Cup winner. He was retired from racing after ru...

Mick Kinane has hailed Vintage Crop as an "iconic stayer" after the Melbourne Cup hero passed away at the age of 27, reports the Irish Racing Post. Trained by Dermot Weld, Vintage Crop becam...

Champion Irish trainer Dermot Weld reflected fondly on his grand galloper Vintage Crop, the 1993 Melbourne Cup winner, who died on Monday at the age of 27. As the first internationally-trained...

Solid field sizes, a couple of races full to capacity, providing true pace, no sign of track bias and some brilliant navigation all made for an interesting day's racing. The type you want to bet on...

Dermot Weld intends to be back for a crack at winning his third Melbourne Cup when Australia's iconic horse race is run for the 150th time on November 2.Weld played his part in helping make the Mel...

Classic crop gallopers All You Wish and Designs On Rome are sure to have plenty of memorable clashes ahead of them but All You Wish should maintain an unbeaten record over his rival in ...