Hellava Hustle 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...

MOONEE Valley has a cult hero heading into the Cox Plate.  The Cleaner  bandwagon is overflowing as the ‘Lion Of Longford’ added the JRA Cup to his ever increasing profile tonight at Moonee Val...

Brett Mallyon received the best possible birthday present today when daughter Katelyn was released from hospital.Victoria's leading apprentice jockey, who suffered a range of serious injuries in a ...

Over the years I've met a lot of great characters on racetracks. Not so many in recent years, though. Much of the colour seems to have drained from racing in that respect. But go back 10, 15, 20 y...