Equilibrium Horse

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...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

From NEIL FRANKLYNLEMONADE3f : Donoghue/Pike : Cambridge5 starts : 2 winsWin distance range : 1200m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Fast/GoodThis filly is flying at the moment and there's no reaso...

The big question arising from the Moonee Valley meeting is whether Alcopop really is back to something like his best? He certainly ran home stoutly in the Dato Tan. The Cox Plate may be the ideal ...

Tough call for Ben Melham...With the ride on the rejuvenated Alcopop on offer for him in the Grp 1 Australian Cup (2000m) on Saturday, Melham's been hit with a suspension that might mean he'll mi...

Lots of hard luck stories in the wake of Shocking's Cup win...Fairytale horse, and media darling, Alcopop, didn't get much of a run, according to jockey Dom Tourneur. The lightly raced South Austra...

AFTER taking Victorian racing by storm last spring, South Australian stayer Alcopop will race exclusively in Sydney during the autumn in a bid to capture his first group 1 success, reports The Age....

Imported miler  Count of Limonade  trialled well for Mick Price on Tuesday at Cranbourne. Count of Limonade , raced by Terry Henderson and Simon O'Donnell's OTI syndicate, defeated glamour stabl...