Magic Storm 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...

Capitalist has firmed in betting for the 2YO Magic Millions after coming up with barrier two for Saturday's feature. TAB reacted immediately to the Peter Snowden-trained runner drawing ideally by...

A trip to New Zealand for Funtantes is in doubt while the summer carnival campaigns for other contenders are in disarray due to disruptions caused by Queensland's weather.A fierce storm which lash...

Gold Coast trainer Stephen Lowe believes Showify has his hoof on the till to break his winning drought in the Listed Brisbane Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Showify has not won since January 19...

The Group Three George Moore Stakes fell victim to the weather for the second week running following a torrential downpour and has now been abandoned.The final three races at Eagle Farm on Saturday...

Gun heavyweight jockey Dale Missen knows better than most the importance of grabbing every opportunity with both hands.A former champion Victorian country apprentice Missen, 31, took north Queensla...

Luke Nolen didn't have long to soak up Black Caviar's unforgettable Diamond Jubilee Stakes win.A little more than 24 hours after narrowly keeping the champion mare's unbeaten record intact in the G...