No Ordinary Show 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...

Here we go!PLAN A selections (the wildcat ones!)Moonee Valley 5-4-2-4-7-2-5-7Randwick 2-1-6-2-1-2-1-6Belmont 1-1-1-4-5-1-3-6Eagle Farm 8-4-12-1-9-6-4-13Morphettville 3-4-7-1-3-4-3-3It will be most ...

Here we go!PLAN A selections (the wildcat ones!)Moonee Valley 5-4-2-4-7-2-5-7Randwick 2-1-6-2-1-2-1-6Belmont 1-1-1-4-5-1-3-6Eagle Farm 8-4-12-1-9-6-4-13Morphettville 3-4-7-1-3-4-3-3It will be most ...

Yes, But How Wet?If the Doomben Ten Thousand, one of Australia's biggest sprint races, wasn't being run this weekend I'd be tempted to go to the movies.Well not seriously. I'm addicted to racing wh...

This series is devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks.  Over the course of a year various aspects of the favourites will be cove...

This series is devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks.  Over the course of a year various aspects of the favourites will be cove...

Those punters who believe that level stakes betting is dull, conservative and a copout are probably interested in any other form of staking. Anything which can bring with it a touch of excitement,...