Great Affair 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...

The Challenge Stakes proved just that for Rain Affair but the sprinter was up to the task as he fought off Satin Shoes and Neeson to win the Group Two race at Rosehill.Trainer Joe Pride was a relie...

A Group One victory in the TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday would bring great satisfaction to top jockey Corey Brown.Brown has already won a TJ Smith on popular sprinter Apache Cat four years ago but sa...

Exciting sprinter Rain Affair came out on top in his much-publicised first foray into stakes racing but did so by just a narrow margin in a thrilling Group Three Missile Stakes at Randwick.Rain Aff...

TRAINER Joe Pride has declared his hand early in the battle for tomorrow's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington, after yesterday claiming the likely task of having to lead the race from start to finish...

On the day the world's best sprinter won yet again, Rain Affair proved he he was on the top rung of the next best with victory in the Expressway Stakes at Rosehill.The four-year-old led all the way...

Emerging sprint star Rain Affair added another string to his bow when he stretched out to 1400 metres for the first time with the same winning result in the Apollo Stakes.The $1.50 favourite had th...