Looking The Part 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...

BEFORE PART THREE, A HUMBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.It was amazing wasn't it?A demolition job. OK, so More Joyous handed it on a plate to the pinup boy, but he still had to be good enough.Good enough???Dev...

When we look at statistics in horseracing, we are really looking at what the 'past' has created - a set of figures based on many years' racing, which are so levelled out as to be considered a real...

This is my first article in a new series. You, the readers, will hopefully write to Equestrian, and indicate some of your favourite "Optimist" articles from the past 20 years. You will determine...

If we look at the sparse greyhound form contained in most newspapers, and some formguides, we are seeing only a segment of the true picture. It's a bit like looking at the façade of a house witho...

If we look at the sparse greyhound form contained in most newspapers, and some formguides, we are seeing only a segment of the true picture. It's a bit like looking at the façade of a house wit...

M anaging part owner Neil Werrett has revealed  that champion mare Black Caviar has taken to pregnancy the same way she took to her racing career, reports Racing Victora.