He's Exciting 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...

Exciting three-year-old Chivalry indicated he was in for a big Spring campaign coming from last to win Saturday’s $150,000 Group 3 H....

Exciting two-year-old colt Polanski made it two victories in a row at Caulfield 

Mike Moroney’s exciting German import  Araldo  took another step towards the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Friday, competing in an 800-metre jumpout. He also kept going for another 200m. “He wen...

  Exciting staying prospect Super Cool has returned to trainer Mark Kavanagh’s Flemington stables to begin preparations for the Spring Racing Carnival.

The new training partnership of John Ledger and son Chris will try for a breakthrough metropolitan win at Flemington on Saturday with exciting prospect Better Be Sure.The Wangaratta-based co-traine...

The washup...Nothing too exciting has emerged from the Shane Dye kerfuffle in Mauritius...He's been suspended for a week and fined 100,000 Mauritian rupees ($3900) over his handling of a horse whic...