Hardly Working 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...

Not past his use-by date...Victoria's new racing minister Denis Napthine hardly endorsed yesterday's re-appointment of Michael Duffy to a second three-year term as the state's biggest racing powerb...

Talented South Australian stayer Alcopop impressed trainer Jake Stephens with a track gallop at Kembla Grange on Saturday which showed he was on target to begin his Sydney campaign in the Apollo St...

Several Sundays ago, I was watching SKY Racing's coverage of minor race meetings, some at places I'd hardly heard of, let alone visited. The programmes were full of Maidens and Class 1 and 2 races...

Can we learn from handicapping experts around the world? Sure we can. Over the years, PPM has brought you the views of many top professionals, from America, Europe and even Asia. All had somethin...

The past few years have seen many changes to racing. It seems that hardly a month goes by without further ones being introduced in one form or another. Last year saw changes made to the structur...

The past few years have seen many changes to racing. It seems that hardly a month goes by without further ones being introduced in one form or another. Last year saw changes made to the structur...