High Fever 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...

Betting fever has swung into high-heat mode on the Caulfield Cup with just 24 hours to go before the field jumps away...Luca Cumani's much-hyped Cima De Triomphe is attracting big support, though s...

WITH wins in the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate, Bart Cummings has already left an indelible mark on this year's spring carnival, and the renowned trainer will have a big impact on the Melbourne Cup e...

Three-time stakeswinner Predatory Pricer has died of suspected acute colitis on an agistment farm in NSW.An unlucky galloper, the five-year-old retired in September after a career plagued by injury...

Black Caviar fever arrived in Sydney a couple of days early when a half-brother to the champion mare topped the million dollar mark at the Australian Easter Yearling sale.A huge crowd gathered to w...

With a new punting year – 1995 – looming, it's time enough for any punter with serious designs of making money to decide if he, or she, is equipped with the necessary skills and psychological make...

When a bookmaker writes to tell you that he's been "severely wounded" by a betting plunge that you have orchestrated, it means that something extra special has been achieved. And this is what ha...