Havana Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Why not? Qld trainer Liam Birchley isset for another assault on New Zealand's richest juvenile race...He's taking last-start Brisbane winner Sister Havana to Kiwi Land for a crack at th Karaka Mill...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...

It is a long way from Brisbane to New Zealand for the Karaka Millions at Ellerslie, especially if you have to travel by road first.That's the scenario for the Liam Birchley-trained Sister Havana wh...

Bjorn Baker got the monkey off his back for his new Sydney operation at Canterbury recently and is hoping to build on that city win at the same track on Wednesday.Earlier this month three-year-old ...

Stathi Katsidis hopes to continue his big race form when he heads to New Zealand later this month to partner talented Queensland filly Sister Havana in the Listed Karaka Millions at Ellerslie.Katsi...