Frosted Warrior 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...

Too many horseplayers attack each race by asking an incorrect question: Which horse is the most likely winner? A better question: What do I know about this race that enables me to see it differen...

  There's no point in devising detailed betting strategies unless you're a winning player. And the only way to discover the truth about your play is to keep records. You can't run a business with...

Many of us go through life thinking we understand something, or assuming something to be right, when all the time we are wrong. I spent 30 years of my life believing that the word 'nonchalant' was...

Punters who understand and use horse body language as an aid to their handicapping are giving themselves an edge. They are getting a second opinion on the horse's ability, not from papers or the t...

Has today's unprecedented amount of racing information led to in increase in the number of winning punters? I would argue 'No'. The reason lies in the fact that the majority of punters continue t...

There is less than a minute to go before the jump. What to do? Win bet? Exacta? Trifecta? How much on each? What's right? While the questions posed seem simple, they are problems that mathematic...