Emanating 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 Melbourne Cup has been rated the best staying race in the world for the past two years, so the trends established by the great race in that time are the benchmark for distance racing. In short,...

Here is an extract from my latest article on some of Australia's most astute smaller training operations. Read the full article in the upcoming edition of PPM... The devastating win of Qfighter, a ...

There's a lot of nonsense flying around after that controversial court win for Racing NSW. Much of it is coming from the victors. Some is coming from Victoria where the usually sensible trainer Pet...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

A decision on whether jockey Danny Nikolic has the right to withhold his mobile phone from stewards has been reserved.Nikolic appeared before the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) on Frid...