My Top Secret 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...

Grahame Begg's top mare Secret Admirer kicks off her autumn campaign in the Grp 2 $200,000 Apollo Stakes (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens on Feb 19 and Begg reckons she's in great shape for the autumn. ...

Brenton Avdulla holds fond memories of Epsom Handicap day and is hoping to add to them with victory on his favourite horse in Saturday's $500,000 feature.Avdulla grew up in Melbourne and only arriv...

Brenton Avdulla holds fond memories of Epsom Handicap day and is hoping to add to them with victory on his favourite horse in Saturday's $500,000 feature.Avdulla grew up in Melbourne and only arriv...

Secret Admirer became the first mare in 35 years to win the Group One Epsom Handicap at Randwick and in doing so turned around the spring fortunes of trainer Grahame Begg.Begg has endured a frustra...

The generic ratings I am developing is fairly well set for the sprinters as there are really only a handful of serious sprints left this spring and although there will be different results it will ...

Hugh Bowman's looking good for some big-race strikes...He'll be on Strike The Stars in the Grp 3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) at Rosehill on Saturday and is also confirmed for the Guy Walter-trained Str...