Modern Miss 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...

BLACK Caviar might be rated a $1.22 chance, but she faces an unknown factor at her Sydney debut, and history suggests that even superstars can struggle the first time they race the opposite way for...

The Stradbroke Handicap could be back on the agenda for star sprinter Hay List despite his shock withdrawal from Saturday's Doomben 10,000.McNair was relieved to learn Hay List's infection in his o...

Trainer John McNair says he never lost confidence in Hay List who delivered one of the great Newmarket Handicap wins of the modern era.McNair resurrected Hay List from a life-threatening leg infect...

Black Caviar lived up to her rating as the world's best sprinter when she gave her opposition weight and a beating in Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Under 58kg, the four-yea...

Light Vision grabbed the final spot in Saturday's Caulfield Cup field on a dramatic day when early favourite Speed Gifted and reigning Cox Plate winner Maldivian were withdrawn from the $2.5 millio...

Light Vision grabbed the final spot in Saturday's Caulfield Cup field on a dramatic day when early favourite Speed Gifted and reigning Cox Plate winner Maldivian were withdrawn from the $2.5 millio...