I Run On Air 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...

It is one of the great myths of racing that the less those supposedly in the know are aware about your horse, the better the price. About 10 years ago, John Holloway, then a racing writer for the ...

As the Spring carnival nears the end my Generic Ratings project is about to "spring" into action as I start to finalize the sprinters (900m to 1200m) ratings. One wonders how we figures desperadoes...

Twelve months after Black Caviar was the toast of Derby day at Randwick, little brother All Too Hard will chase his own slice of the Sydney carnival pie.Black Caviar was at her brilliant best when ...

Since writing the first article in this series, I've had a number of communications-by mail and telephone-from P.P.M. readers, anxious to ask me questions, and one or two to say that my progressio...

Since writing the first article in this series, I've had a number of communications-by mail and telephone-from P.P.M. readers, anxious to ask me questions, and one or two to say that my progressio...

Since writing the first article in this series, I've had a number of communications-by mail and telephone-from P.P.M. readers, anxious to ask me questions, and one or two to say that my progressio...