I Am A Marvel 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...

For trainer John McNair, looking back on the past decade is a reflection on the career of grand sprinter Mustard.The 12-year-old lines up for his 101st start at Rosehill on Saturday almost 10 years...

For trainer John McNair, looking back on the past decade is a reflection on the career of grand sprinter Mustard.The 12-year-old lines up for his 101st start at Rosehill on Saturday, almost 10 year...

For trainer John McNair, looking back on the past decade is a reflection on the career of grand sprinter Mustard.The 12-year-old lines up for his 101st start at Rosehill on Saturday, almost 10 year...

For trainer John McNair, looking back on the past decade is a reflection on the career of grand sprinter Mustard.The 12-year-old lines up for his 101st start at Rosehill on Saturday almost 10 years...

The publication of the nominations for major Autumn races always puts a spring in the step of the keen punter. Scanning the Australian Cup nominations I wonder to what level Heart Of Dreams, Purple...

4 hours in the life of our expert, The Optimist I am going to stick to Saturdays for all my comments in this article. That is because (1) Saturdays are probably the principal days for virtuall...