Flying Pretty 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...

Find a horse to run a place and go from that key point. Many is the punter who in rage and frustration has torn up a betting ticket on a trifecta. Know the feeling? You get 1st, 2nd and 4th, or 2...

Find a horse to run a place and go from that key point. Many is the punter who in rage and frustration has torn up a betting ticket on a trifecta. Know the feeling? You get 1st, 2nd and 4th, or 2...

Find a horse to run a place and go from that key point. Many is the punter who in rage and frustration has torn up a betting ticket on a trifecta. Know the feeling? You get 1st, 2nd and 4th, or 2...

With a new punting year – 1995 – looming, it's time enough for any punter with serious designs of making money to decide if he, or she, is equipped with the necessary skills and psychological make...

Few punters would argue against the statement that says staking is MORE important than selection in the battle to win at horse-racing. Some might say that both are equally important. I tend to di...

This is the second article of a series in which US expert Barry Meadow and PPM editor Brian Blackwell discuss the fundamentals of horse-racing handicapping. Meadow's ideas come from his lifelong p...