Laila's A Gem 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...

Trainer Gary Portelli is keen to give American import Eight Eighty Eight a spring campaign but he admits she has to produce some big winter performances to delay her retirement to the broodmare bar...

Trainer Gary Portelli is keen to give American import Eight Eighty Eight a spring campaign but he admits she has to produce some big winter performances to delay her retirement to the broodmare bar...

I don't like big fields.I make one exception, and that's "The Race That Stops a Nation". The value is there in the Cup, and it can reward the time and effort.But those big fellas at Brisbane were h...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is leaning towards testing Hot Snitzel against some of the country's best sprinters in next week's Group One Galaxy at Randwick.It will be the first time the three-year-old has ...

Mark Kavanagh's hotpot December Draw has retained favoritism at a skinny $2.50 (6/4) after drawing gate #11 for Sat's 2400m Grp 1 Caulfield Cup at Caulfield. The import Lucas Cranach remains on the...

Imported stayer December Draw looks like being sent out a very short-priced fav for Sat's Caulfield Cup. After final acceptances he's at $2.50, which is 6/4 in the 'old' betting language. The Bets...