Missile Away 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...

Controversial Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile is back in the running for autumn carnival spoils.Smart Missile took part in a hastily-arranged jumpout in front of stewards on Monday and was ...

TRAINER Gai Waterhouse may have dominated yesterday's Randwick barrier trials in Sydney by winning more than half the program, but it was the gifted Anthony Cummings-trained three-year-old Smart Mi...

Boom colt Smart Missile will go into uncharted waters on two fronts when he lines up in the $1 million Group One Golden Rose on Saturday.The three-year-old has never raced second-up and he has neve...

When it comes to boom colt Smart Missile, trainer Anthony Cummings is just about talked out."There's nothing much more to say now, it's time for him to come out and do the talking on the track," Cu...

One of Australia's oldest metropolitan jockeys has been called on to help revive the career of one of the most precocious talents in Sydney's newly-crowned premier stable.Rodney Quinn, 50, emerged ...

Spring plans for unbeaten colt Smart Missile are still to be determined but the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington is looming as a major goal.The youngster is raced by Eduardo Cojuangco's...