Living In Hope 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 Michael Nolan is living in hope his underrated sprinter Zahas Pride can break his Listed Weetwood Handicap hoodoo at Toowoomba."It's a race I just can't win. I've had runners in it just abo...

No sooner has the dust settled on Kyneton Cup day than I find myself puffing and panting for the formguides for the VRC Oaks and dutifully do the required form work that night. Is there a picture...

Former Socceroo Scott Chipperfield may be living in Switzerland but he hopes to be playing a starring role at Doomben on Saturday.Chipperfield is a part-owner of Buffering, second favourite for the...

The question has to be asked - is Daniel Ganderton getting a fair go from NSW stewards? He's just been outed for 2 months for failing to give a ho0rse every chance of winning in a race at Canterbur...

Turn me into Columbo! That seems to be the plea of Victoria's chief racing steward Terry Bailey. The Melbourne Herald-Sun reports that Bailey wants 'greater powers' to gather information, including...

In a city where female jockeys are a relative rarity, Australian Chad Schofield still found himself on the road less travelled as he and this season's other new rider, Kei Chiong Ka-kei, were pres...