Misty Blue 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...

Promising filly Misty Blue faces her acid test at Flemington on Saturday but trainer Greg Eurell is confident the three-year-old has the ability to handle her first stakes attempt.Misty Blue will c...

Promising filly Misty Blue faces her acid test at Flemington on Saturday but trainer Greg Eurell is confident the three-year-old has the ability to handle her first stakes attempt.Misty Blue will c...

Godolphin's 1000 Guineas winner Blue Bunting is favourite to complete a famous double in the English Oaks.The filly heads 16 entries remaining for Friday's Classic at Epsom.Aidan O'Brien has a stro...

Victoria's leading apprentice Jake Noonan looks set to continue on his winning way at Caulfield on Saturday when he has a full book of eight rides.Fresh from riding five metropolitan winners over 2...

Peter Moody says it's decision time for Set For Fame who could take on Denman in the Australian Guineas if she impressively wins Saturday's Group Two Angus Armanasco Stakes at Caulfield.The daughte...

Winning money at any form of racing is a tough assignment. Winning at harness racing, it is said, is harder despite the fact that many more favourites win than in horse-racing. The problem with...