Ellovaman 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...

WHAT YOU KNOW... AND WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW...It's too easy to let the papers do your work for you.So simple. You read about a horse you've never heard of, starting at an unfamliar venue, and with a h...

From NEIL FRANKLYNLOVISTE4m : L Noble : Matamata13 starts : 3 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 1200m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : SlowBlack Minnaloushe mare who caught my attenti...

The Optimist talks candidly with two long-time PPM writers, Richard Hartley and Damien Whitchurch, and asks them to identify their vital long-term winning factors. The Optimist: You've both been ...

WAS THAT ME?Vigor's $26 for the Caulfield Cup collapsed late last week. I just wondered whether or not it was down to my comments here. Probably not, and probably a weenie bit immodest, but then he...

N A week's time, Luke Nolen's face may well be broadcast around the globe as the rider of the world's fastest horse, Black Caviar, following her run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in ...

Kathy O'Hara stuck up for herself when questioned by stewards in that inquiry into the phone calls she got from boyfriend Blake Shinn while riding at various NSW meetings. And she maintains she kne...