Hold Sway 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...

From Racing Post HK www.racing.scmp.comA photo-finish in the final race was the difference that saw Brett Prebble hold sway in the Jockey Challenge at Happy Valley last night but the story of the n...

Mark Kavanagh's ace stayer Shocking continues to hold sway in the betting for next Tuesday's Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Betstar has last year's Cup winner at $4.50 (7/2) ahead of his run in Sat's...

The two most recognisable racehorse trainers in the country ended the year equal at the top of the Group One table on seven apiece.Bart Cummings and Gai Waterhouse are names that transcend their ch...

Descarado has firmed to $12 to add the Melbourne Cup to his Caulfield Cup victory but last year's winner Shocking and So You Think hold sway as equal favourites.The two are at $5 with a decision on...

The aim of this new series of articles is to provide you with a formula for doing the form. Not such an easy assignment, as we all know. However, with a bit of leeway here and there, I think we ca...

When Lonhro failed to win the Cox Plate on October 25 his defeat spelled the end of a massive campaign to anoint him our latest "champion". Most of the media commentators were on the Lonhro bandwa...