Forever Dreaming 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 filly with a close maternal connection to a Golden Slipper winner and a Victoria Derby hero ran the fastest of 12 Sydney two-year-old barrier trials on Monday.Most of the 81 babies who contested ...

The challenge of trying to take the scalp of a blue blood yearling is too hard to resist for country trainer Brett Cavanough.Cavanough, no stranger to successful bush plunges, immediately shelved p...

It's amazing how quickly a week passes in our lives. Last Thursday afternoon I listened to my doctor saying, "I would like you to go home and pack a toothbrush and get yourself straight to hospital...

A chance meeting in an Adelaide pub many years ago was the catalyst for a partnership that has netted four Melbourne Cups and a friendship like no other between Bart Cummings and Dato'Tan Chin Nam....

Stuart Kendrick is happy to challenge the odds with his $17,000 filly in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper.As All Too Hard, the blue blood colt owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler emerged as outri...

Gai Waterhouse expects Rock Kingdom to step up and prove her assertion he is the leading three-year-old in Australasia when he takes on Metal Bender in the Rosehill Guineas, round two of the three-...