Into Champagne 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...

TRAINER Peter Moody soaked his stable rider Luke Nolen in champagne as part of a dual celebration at Caulfield yesterday, reports the Sunday Age. It says: For not only did the trainer-jockey combin...

The bubbly served trackside and in the sumptuous marquees at this year's Melbourne Cup will still be French, but in a massive break in sponsorship and tradition, the Champagne will no longer be pou...

Onemorenomore's natural early speed will be utilised on Saturday with trainer Jason Coyle expecting the colt to race closer to the speed in the Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick.The Red Ransom...

  In what must rank as one of the finest tipping achievements since the PPD Club began in 1995, editor Brian Blackwell landed FOUR best bet winners on Wednesday, including his headline...

The Kris Lees-trained Samantha Miss thwarted Sebring's triple crown bid and the trainer hopes Uate can do likewise to the Darley operation in Saturday's Champagne Stakes.Lees prepared Samantha Miss...

A few years ago, pottering around with sales cast-offs was the main fare for young trainer Paul Messara.But in a sign of how far he has come in a short time, he will chase his second Group One vict...