Just A Prize 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 federal government has been urged to seize the Melbourne Cup prize money of third-place getter Mourilyan, which is owned by Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov.The Australian Greens believe the $42...

Promising stayer Buccaneers Prize continues to please David Payne ahead of his next assignment at Canterbury where the four-year-old headlines a promising team for the Rosehill trainer.Buccaneers P...

Majestic Music has given trainer Leon Macdonald some consolation on Melbourne Cup day with her win at Flemington.The Macdonald-trained Rebel Raider was the early favourite for the Cup before he suf...

If you are searching for reasons to back the John Size-trained Gamekeepers to win tonight's Community Chest Cup (1,000m) at Happy Valley, just look back at the last winner the yard sent out. On Sun...

From NEIL FRANKLYNPOLLY PETITE4m : B Revell : New Plymouth15 starts : 3 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 2000m - 2200mTrack conditions won on : SlowUseful middle-distance performer who's really ...

When it comes to predicting the Melbourne Cup winner, it's hard to go past the Geelong Cup.Where previously the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double had been an impossible dream, the Europeans have for...