Enlightened 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...

I’ve long held to the belief that you can learn something from everyone, no matter his or her station in life, or geographic location. The thinking really applies to horseracing betting. I’ve sea...

The argument is as old as racing. Should you bet level stakes or progressive? If your answer is the former, then that’s easy. There’s little more to do. You just front up, and you have your bet on...

The argument is as old as racing. Should you bet level stakes or progressive? If your answer is the former, then that’s easy. There’s little more to do. You just front up, and you have your bet on...

In the racing world there are some people whose opinions you respect without question and one such person, in my opinion, is Geoffrey Hutson. I first met Geoffrey via an Internet forum and was im...

The argument is as old as racing. Should you bet level stakes or progressive? If your answer is the former, then that’s easy. There’s little more to do. You just front up, and you have your bet on...

Last month, we went through some of the more depressing ways of losing your money. This month I'd like to take a more optimistic view and to consider some ways of doing our very level best not to ...