Eight Mile 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...

Remember, I am just like most readers of PPM. I am not a 'pro' and never want to be. I'm a hobby punter and I have a very good time enjoying my racing and regularly showing a profit. As I wrote la...

When we talk about punting we have to, alas, talk about illogicality and irrational thinking. We must talk about cashing the small bets and losing the big ones, about catching little 'fish' and mi...

Last month we left off at the point where I was raving (again) about the Graham Swift novel, Last Orders. It's the only novel I can ever remember in which the author really seems to understand ...

Last month we left off at the point where I was raving (again) about the Graham Swift novel, Last Orders. It's the only novel I can ever remember in which the author really seems to understand w...

FACED with the challenge of coaxing underachieving four-year-old Ma Shang back to the winners' list, Mornington trainer Tony Noonan reached into his bag of tricks and produced a pair of earmuffs, w...

When it comes to betting, few punters give much thought to the venues at which they are betting. But betting the right tracks as well as the right races can be all important when determining if yo...