Dark Martian Horse

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...

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...

From RACING POST HKJohn Moore has owned the HK$8 million Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup in recent times and the leading trainer is in the driver's seat again this afternoon, with expensive import Iria...

TAB has opened smart filly Madeenaty as the early favourite for the 2yo Magic Millions, priced at $7.00 after an impressive display over the Melbourne Cup Carnival. In what looks to be an open ...

TRAINER Joe Pride is preparing to strike while the iron is hot and back up Doncaster Mile champ Sacred Choice in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick on Saturday, reports the Daily Telegrap...

A refreshed Douglas Whyte is back from suspension and thrust into the hot seat in today's Jockey Challenge at Sha Tin, and might well have it put to bed before the meeting is half over. Oddsmakers ...

The CSL Million Challenge winds down to its thrilling conclusion in the Kwai Fong Handicap (1,200m) at Happy Valley tonight and the Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Tai Sing Yeh is out of contention, b...

Drivers play a major role in the harness code. Good drivers possess what is known as a 'light touch'. Couple this with the ability to control emotions, race experience and lightning-fast reflexes ...