Invasion 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...

Japanese stayer Tokai Trick, his country's sole Cups raider, has arrived at the Werribee International Quarantine centre. Tokai Trick will be the first Japanese horse to race in Melbourne since Del...

That foreign invasion for the Melbourne Cup is building up - and there'll be more news arriving this weekend. Current situation: Across Europe and Asia, 7 horses are already in quarantine and Satur...

THE ROMAN INVASIONI had a most pleasant morning today with Roman Koz. Of course we talked racing.What else?Anyway, we exchanged all sorts of ideas on making money at the track, and we went over tha...

Encouraging overseas horses to come to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup seemed like a good idea at one time but with eight Europeans in the field this year, many have called for a limit on th...

Spearheaded by Princess Coup, the "big four" of New Zealand racing will mount a blitz on the Melbourne spring carnival after their strong showings in the Kelt Capital Stakes.Princess Coup was a dom...

Will it be the Yankee invasion next? Chris Waller is looking at buying US gallopers. He's already pioneered buying stayers out of Europe and developing them into Aussiewinners and now the canny NZe...