Diamond Ridge 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...

The question most fellow punters ask me is to explain my approach to form and betting. Quite naturally, they want to know what the secret is to making a profit at the races. Who doesn't? By th...

Alice Springs sprinter The Soldier will be out to give trainer Ken Rogerson his first winner in Melbourne since he left for the Northern Territory 17 years ago at Moonee Valley on Saturday.Rogerson...

"An Error of Judgement"That's what the Sun-Herald called Victoria Racing's decision to omit Vigor, third in the Caulfield Cup and next in line, and to allow two third raters, hopelessly beaten in a...

AUGUST 01Plan A Rosehill 5-5-2-4-6-1-2-12Caulfield 2-5-4-3-3-6-2-1Doomben 1-2-1-4-4-9-2-1Morphettville 3-4-3-1-1-4-4-1Belmont 1-8-6-1-3-5-10-14Plan CRosehill SLOWRace 1 No 5 Voice CoachRace 3 No 2 ...

This is the month - August - when punters should begin looking for the early clues to discovering which horses will win major spring races like the Caulfield Cup, Melbourne Cup and W.S. Cox Plate....

Brett Prebble celebrated a dream homecoming when he teamed with Macedon Lodge import Green Moon to win Tuesday's $6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.The Victorian-raised jockey,...