Incomparable 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...

The  funeral for champion jockey Roy Higgins will be held this Thursday at Flemington, the scene of many of his greatest racing triumphs.  Higgins’ family announced today that the funeral servic...

UNBEATEN superstar Black Caviar will face nine rivals in her South Australian debut on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd at Morphettville. The prospect of taking on the world's best sprinter at...

Peter Moody didn’t rate it Black Caviar’s best win

Glen Boss believes an apparent lack of depth among Australia's weight-for-age middle distance horses can help create spring opportunities for Shamrocker, a prized carnival ride for the leading jock...

My father, a throwback from the Victorian age, was often given to uttering platitudes as though he had just invented them. When my interest in dog-paddling across the treacherous English channel h...

I discussed with Brian the prospects of taking an overall look at what is available, so far as the best racing literature is concerned. We agreed that although we talk every month about specific...