Kurpany 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...

Black Caviar's trainer Peter Moody has raised the stakes in the battle over tactics by declaring the mare could lead in Saturday's Group One BTC Cup at Doomben.It is widely anticipated, particularl...

áMaking Money at the RacesIn my view, after speaking to thousands of punters over a long time and reading countless letters and (these days) emails, the reason for the whole racing thing is making ...

By all weather reports this Saturday's VRC Derby day will be uncharacteristically wet as this meeting is usually soaked in sunshine and not rain. Nevertheless, what a crackerjack meeting and I must...

One of the great ongoing debates in the racing world is the question of weight and the effect that it has on horses in a race. I’d like to put a couple of thoughts in your head about this issue, s...

Damien Whitchurch interviews The Optimist on one of the master's favourite bets: the ABfield trifecta and its offspring. Damien Whitchurch: This is going to be interesting for me, as although I h...

Damien Whitchurch interviews The Optimist on one of the master's favourite bets: the ABfield trifecta and its offspring. Damien Whitchurch: This is going to be interesting for me, as although I h...