Mindful 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...

Qualifying German import Mawingo for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups is now a priority after his stunning Australian debut at Flemington.Trainer Anthony Freedman said he would scan racing calendar...

Sydney's premiership leading jockey Hugh Bowman is far from running scared of star filly Mosheen and is confident Streama has the ability to topple the favourite in Saturday's Vinery Stud Stakes.Th...

West Australian trainer Dan Morton may have had his confidence dented when Bliss Street was beaten last start but he remains optimistic about the filly's chances in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfiel...

Damien Oliver is wary of the next generation of weight-for-age horses who he says are closing in on established campaigner Whobegotyou.Oliver said Saturday's Group One Caulfield Stakes looked a nic...

Trainer Stuart Webb is wary that a successful winter campaign may rule three-time Group One winning mare Yosei out of next month's Cox Plate.Webb said the four-year-old had come up well this prepar...

In-form mare Aloha may have earned a crack at the Group One Coolmore Classic after extending her winning streak at Flemington.Price had his reservations about Aloha's fitness first-up in Saturday's...