Mariposa 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...

Aussie jockey Zac Purton grabbed a rare opportunity for the John Moore stable to claim his first Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin and break the trainer's Grp One drought for the season with Military A...

Let's go plastic...The Victorian Government will install plastic running rails at 25 of the state's country racetracks. Racing Minister Rob Hulls says the rails will be installed at the tracks over...

Has there been a worse ride this year than that of Craig Williams on the well-backed My Bentley in the final race at Caulfield? The usually reliable jockey lacked any initiative to break away from ...

David Payne has thrown his support behind an initiative to hold an 1800-metre race for two-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.The trainer has nominated three juveniles for the race and says it is vi...

Victory in the Group Two Breeders' Classic at Warwick Farm is likely to prompt trainer John O'Shea to raise the bar with lightly-raced mare Steps In Time.Jim Cassidy took the initiative aboard Step...

Gai Waterhouse and Katie Page have launched a $500,000 incentive aimed at attracting women to racehorse ownership.Page, the managing director of Harvey Norman and a co-owner of the Magic Millions s...