Deft 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...

Rockstardom, the $1.5 million son of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva, has made a promising start to his racing career.Stepping out in a three-year-old maiden race over 1300 metres at G...

Rockstardom, the $1.5 million son of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva, has made a promising start to his racing career.Stepping out in a three-year-old maiden race over 1300 metres at G...

Rockstardom, the $1.5 million son of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva, has made a promising start to his racing career.Stepping out in a three-year-old maiden race over 1300 metres at G...

Rockstardom, the $1.5 million son of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva, has made a promising start to his racing career.Stepping out in a three-year-old maiden race over 1300 metres at G...

I Need to Fly, one of the most admired lots at last year's Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale, notched a valuable city win when she rocketed home to win the Cecil Godby 2YO Handicap (1410m) at t...

Makybe Diva's first foal Rockstardom is on track to make his race debut before the end of the month.Trainer Danny O'Brien said the three-year-old Galileo colt would have his first start in a countr...