Emirate Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

Amazing decision...Latest reports say rising star Leica Larrikin will miss the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups to target the $1 million Grp 1 Emirate Stakes (1600m). Trainer Richard Freyer has decided...

Recent Sandown Stakes winner Larry's Never Late will not race again before the autumn when his target will be the Group One BMW in Sydney.The five-year-old made a cameo appearance in the spring whe...

Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock adviser John Ferguson has insisted the ruler of Dubai's spending on racing and breeding would be unaffected by the financial crisis facing the emirate.On Wednesday, Dub...

A touch of excitement at Werribee with all of the internationals competing during the Spring Racing Carnival now here in Melbourne. As race day beckons for one of the initial arrivals, a couple t...

An interesting morning of work at Werribee on Friday with some rival trainers nominating who they think are the biggest dangers.

Weight proved no barrier to Group One galloper Captain Sonador making a winning return to racing in the Goldmarket Handicap at the Gold Coast on Monday.Captain Sonador, last year's Epsom Handicap w...