Midnight Blue 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...

A trainer who thought his dream had come true a quarter of a century ago and a horse with more heart than he knew combined with a jockey who pulled off a miracle to fulfil a Cox Plate dream at Moon...

áWet and cold at the creek they call Stony,I scanned the yard in search of a pony,Of noble head and intelligent eye;A steed that could gallop, perhaps even fly?With strong short cannons and good de...

Neither Hugh Bowman nor Ron Quinton are given to sentimentality but Monton's Villiers Stakes victory has a special significance for jockey and trainer.Bowman, who also won the other feature on Satu...