Frustrated 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...

Bailing out of Sydney racing...The SMH reports that Australia's biggest bookmaker, Con Kafataris, is abandoning the Sydney betting ring with the on-course wagering market in free fall and the futur...

Aidan O'Brien could at least smile.Having seen Septimus, the horse regarded as Europe's supreme stayer, finish 18th of the 22 Melbourne Cup runners, he concluded he might have to try and do things ...

Turn me into Columbo! That seems to be the plea of Victoria's chief racing steward Terry Bailey. The Melbourne Herald-Sun reports that Bailey wants 'greater powers' to gather information, including...

Glyn Schofield's getting frustrated, and perhaps a little angry, over being taken off good rides. He's particularly upset at being dumped from Predatory Pricer. He was Predatory Pricer's rider las...

Connections of Brigantin must have been frustrated by his 3rd placing in the Geelong Cup. The French stayer was pocketed in third spot in the slowly-run 2400m and never really threatened the winner...

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...