Daunting Decision 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...

Red Cadeaux  will not run in the race he was initially sent to Australia to contest, the $1.6 million Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m). But the three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up will still be at Rand...

Craig Williams made a rushed trip from Melbourne to partner Ortensia in a gallop at Doomben on Wednesday but is no closer to deciding if he'll ride the filly in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at...

Craig Williams made a rushed trip from Melbourne to partner Ortensia in a gallop at Doomben on Wednesday but is no closer to deciding if he'll ride the filly in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at...

When we talk about 'comprehensive handicapping' we mean an approach to form analysis that attempts to take into account as many key factors as possible. This can be a daunting task for most Auss...

I have always held the belief that winning form is good form. And it is – generally speaking! The one thing that is a fact, an unassailable one, is that last-start winning form has to be taken ser...

So far in this series, I have introduced a dozen major E betting angles to consider in a well-tempered betting portfolio.