No More Romance 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...

PUNTERS seem convinced that the distance of the Caulfield Cup will suit Mongolian Khan ($4.50) perfectly, with TAB taking more than double the stake on the favourite ahead of the next fancy, Fame ...

This article is adapted from the original, published in Smartsig magazine in Britain. Malcolm Smith is a highly-regarded form analyst there. I see racing mostly as an investment medium and in an ...

The "Big Man" Bruce McLachlan will forever be remembered for his quick wit, but it was in his profession as a racehorse trainer that he earned his place among the greatest.McLachlan, who recently t...

The "Big Man" Bruce McLachlan will forever be remembered for his quick wit, but it was in his profession as a racehorse trainer that he earned his place among the greatest.McLachlan, who recently t...

The "Big Man" Bruce McLachlan will forever be remembered for his quick wit, but it was in his profession as a racehorse trainer that he earned his place among the greatest.McLachlan, who recently t...

Jameka  was always going to have to be exceptional to win this year’s Melbourne Cup from the moment the weights came out. Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter assigned the daughter o...