Lady Cavendish Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Brett Cavanough says he is happy to be taking on unbeaten Golden Archer with Bossdon City in Wednesday's Blue Diamond Preview at Caulfield.The Beautiful Crown gelding, a $50,000 purchase at last ye...

Apprentice Blake Spriggs hopes its a case of deja vu when he partners six horses for trainer Brett Cavanough at Goulburn on Monday.The last time 17-year-old Spriggs received a call to arms from Alb...

Apprentice Blake Spriggs hopes its a case of deja vu when he partners six horses for trainer Brett Cavanough at Goulburn on Monday.The last time 17-year-old Spriggs received a call to arms from Alb...

A big weight for exciting prospect Crown Seal has Albury trainer Brett Cavanough perplexed but he remains confident the three-year-old will step up to the mark in his return to city racing at Randw...

The much-hyped Bossdon City didn't live up to expectations in the autumn and trainer Brett Cavanough is a little more cautious ahead of the spring.The two-year-old comes to Randwick on Saturday for...

A seven-meeting suspension could cost Stathi Katsidis the ride on Magic Millions winner Military Rose when she resumes in the Group Two Reisling Slipper Trial at Rosehill next Saturday.Katsidis was...