Mineshaft 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...

Keepin' The Dream, invariably unfashionable with punters, has the statistics on board to say he will revel in his role as a feature race underdog at Hawkesbury.That's the opinion of one of his bigg...

Does big-spending Lloyd Williams have a stayer capable of winning the Melbourne Cup this year? Well, nothing really stands out - except, perhaps, Base, who has his first-up run in the final race at...

The talented but erratic Hard Liquor will be out to enhance his Villiers Stakes prospects when he shoots for back-to-back city wins on Saturday.The four-year-old was described by Anthony Cummings' ...

It seems only fitting that a race named the Fireball Quality be won by a horse capable of scorching the turf.And that horse could just be blueblood Rogano, the Redoute's Choice colt Paul Messara de...

It seems only fitting that a race named the Fireball Quality be won by a horse capable of scorching the turf.And that horse could just be blueblood Rogano, the Redoute's Choice colt Paul Messara de...

The team behind the spring cups bid of English contender Mad Rush have likened the stayer to last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Purple Moon.Francesca Cumani said Mad Rush, trained by her father Lu...