Gimme Gimme 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...

Jockeys' rooms at racecourses are full of less than tidy sights.Riding tack scattered everywhere, boot polish, teacups, riding gear and small people who look like poorly treated prisoners-of-war.Pa...

Leon's dilemma...Trainer Leon Corstens is still weighing his autumn options for Starspangledbanner. It's a toss-up between the Grp 1 duo Lightning Stakes and Oakleigh Plate as first-up races for th...

One minute you're up and the next you're down...Stewards threw cold water on Glen Boss's Cox Plate glory when they suspended him for 10 meetings for careless riding on the winner So You Think. Boss...

Promising filly Tariana could be a surprise starter in Adelaide's Listed Proud Miss Stakes, leaving trainer Mick Price without a runner at Flemington this weekend.Price has nominated the three-year...

Trainer Brian Smith is considering sending Raeburn to Sydney for the Summer Cup on Boxing Day.The improving stayer continued jockey Scott Galloway's comeback from a series of injuries with a short ...

A CRACK at another Cox Plate for John Singleton's outstanding home-bred, More Joyous, is on the agenda, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald. His report adds: Trainer Gai Waterhouse and...