Flying Mean 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...

A BIG BELT - OR A BIG CON?I just watched an unraced two year old backed from around fifteens to $2.35 for the first at Flemington on Saturday.I guess every mug in town will now hop on the bandwagon...

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...

The John Moore-trained Admiration moves into somewhat rarefied air if he can win the Group Three National Day Cup (1,400m) with the top weight at Sha Tin today, but his difficult cause will be assi...

This series of three articles concentrates on aspects of form study. PPM experts The Optimist, Statsman and Jon Hudson discuss their approaches to form and how they pick winners. J.H.: What I'd ...

In recent years, country racing has become such an integral part of our betting life that it's still surprising how much we don't know about it. In-depth form guides for the country meetings, in...

Slow and heavy tracks are s proven great levellers in racing. A million-dollar son of Danehill can be languishing back near last while the horse by the $1500 sire (who cost $3000 at the yearling s...