Ferocious 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...

Aussie jockey Kayla Stra notched her biggest US success when booting home  Arizona-bred Top Fortitude to a stunning 30-1 upset in Saturday’s Grade III, $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Stakes at Santa Anit...

Tycoons do cry...Veteran Zipping's Australian Cup win proved a highly emotional one for mega-rich owner Lloyd Williams.He admits he shed a tear or two for the 8YO who had threatened many times to w...

LIBERAL racing spokesman Denis Napthine yesterday accused Racing Minister Rob Hulls of threatening to abolish Racing Victoria Ltd unless officials banned jumps racing in Victoria - a claim vehement...

David Hayes is considering backing up Laristan in Saturday's $1 million Australian Cup after he broke through for his first Australian win at Flemington.The French import claimed Saturday's Nationa...

In this third article, I want to address the issue of what punters expect from their betting. Do we want too much, not enough? Are we reasonable or unreasonable in our expectations? Now some of y...

Australian jockey Zac Purton lauded Hong Kong as "a place where I'm encouraged to ride winners" as he launched an attack on controversial whip rules in his home country in the wake of a double a...