Eight Under 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...

Speedster Eight Bills restored Gary Portelli's confidence in his ability with a dominant victory under a big weight at Warwick Farm a couple of weeks ago.More importantly, the trainer believes the ...

Multiple stakes-placed sprinter Eight Bills will have his first start at Caulfield for rookie trainer Troy Portelli who is trying build his own stable under the Portelli Racing banner.In recent yea...

Ron Quinton continued an excellent run with his small team when lightly-raced Under Arrest scored his first city win at Canterbury on Wednesday.Under Arrest's 1-1/2 length victory in theraces.com.a...

A decision on a start for New Zealander Sir Slick in the $3 million Cox Plate will be made by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) stewards on race morning.RVL chief vet Paul O'Callaghan inspected Sir Sli...

MORNINGTON 13/023 Kinesthetic $4 - $3.60 ($2000 & $1000 @ $4)6 Crack A Roadie ($3000 & $2000 @ $1.70), Lannister $51 - $357 Launay ($500 @ $7), Eight Bills $7.50 - $6 ($400 e/w @ $7.50/$2.51), Last...

In this, the second of a three-part series, P.P.M's computer expert Neale Yardley delves further into which form factors are the most important. As discussed last month, fitness is one of the mo...