Just A Littletipsy 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’s A Dundeel had enough against him in Saturday’s Sportingbet Cox Plate without the burden of favouritism. The Murray Baker-trained star inherited top spot in the TAB’s market on the $3 million...

Trainer John Bary has no problems taking the unconventional path to the Cox Plate, leaving Jimmy Choux without a race for five weeks going into the weight-for-age championship.Jimmy Choux proved he...

Cox Plate day holds fond memories for Gold Coast trainer Gillian Heinrich who hopes to be at Moonee Valley again this year with talented sprinter Ghetto Blaster if he is successful at Eagle Farm on...

Toorak Toff has been ruled out of the Cox Plate by trainer Rick Hore-Lacy who will keep him to shorter races.Hore-Lacy had flagged the possibility of a start in the Cox Plate (2040m) for Toorak Tof...

Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter is warily predicting a rush of European entries for this year's Cox Plate. He says the lack of depth in local WFA ranks will encourage some European...

The 2013 Sportingbet Cox Plate remains on track to host its first European-trained runner in almost a decade. English pair Side Glance and Mull of Killough were among the 90 horses that were paid...