Lonely One 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 May carnival at The 'Bool is the stuff of legend among Australia's racing fraternity. Indeed, in equine circles, the name 'Warrnambool' signifies not harpoon, lance nor oily cries of 'Chimney's...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

Well, even super sprinters get btn - and that's what happened to the Aussie flash Starspangledbanner at York in the UK overnight. the website At The Races says: 'Near silence descended upon York as...

Watch Out for the Elephant in the Room!A significant amount of money is invested every day of the week on one of the exotics which has captured everybody's attention in the past decade.Of course, I...

Training a Melbourne Cup placegetter has been Helen Page's biggest racing thrill but she now hopes to eclipse the moment by winning the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast.Page is b...