My Gladiola 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...

It may come a run too late for London China Town's supporters last start, but the smart three-year-old should put the record straight by winning the Midland Holdings Cup (1,400m) at Sha Tin today (...

BART Cummings is quietly gaining confidence in his bid for a 13th Melbourne Cup win with a most unlikely horse - the little-known German galloper Illo, reports The Age. Its report adds: The 83-year...

As usual with most questions in racing, there are two sides to this argument and therefore hundreds of different answers, according to how you view each individual situation. For example, pre-post...

As usual with most questions in racing, there are two sides to this argument and therefore hundreds of different answers, according to how you view each individual situation. For example, pre-post...

Last month, I wrote about the life and career of R.W. 'Georgie' Wood, an English schoolteacher who created and published a string of top-selling books, booklets and systems in the 1940s through to...

It never ceases to amaze me how many people take up an interest in horse-racing, and betting, at a late time in their life. At a race meeting recently I got chatting with an elderly chap and at o...