Mind Field 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...

Bush treks have Mind Your Head primed for a showdown with Lucky Secret in a four-horse Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield.Mind Your Head's trainer John Ledger said he was looking forward to a race of tact...

Trainer Anthony Cummings made a big effort to pay attention to the men's fashions at Tuesday's autumn carnival launch at Randwick but had more pressing things on his mind.Top of the list was gettin...

Consistent galloper Philda is a confirmed runner in Saturday's Winter Championship Final after trainer Mick Kent had a change of mind.Kent didn't run the six-year-old in any of the series heats but...

As the racing world deals with the mind numbing issue of padded whips I really wonder about priorities. Yes, some horses need persuading with a whip but overall the form will work itself out and th...

As the racing world deals with the mind numbing issue of padded whips I really wonder about priorities. Yes, some horses need persuading with a whip but overall the form will work itself out and th...

He's made up his mind...Craig Williams WILL ride All Silentin the $1 million Grp I Stradbroke Handicap on Saturday week. he's decided to stick with the Grahame Begg-trained galloper in preference t...