Defend The Nation 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...

He may be coming off Moe and Kyneton Cup wins but trainer Mick Kent says Red Buttons needs to go to another level if he's to continue his winning run in the Canberra Cup."This is going to be a much...

He was renowned for his fighting qualities but this was one battle Northerly could not win.The champion galloper was euthanased on Wednesday night, aged 15, after failing to recover from a severe c...

This is about the time of year that racing fans start to get a little bit excited about the impending Spring Racing Carnival.  Most of the local horses being set for the feature races in Melbour...