Obviously Good 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...

Kiwi trainer Shaune Ritchie is quietly confident his filly Keep The Peace is good enough to hold her own in today's AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. He says: 'It is obviously going to be difficult...

Dual Group One winner Shamrocker galloped impressively at Moonee Valley on Tuesday in preparation for her return to racing in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday week.Ridden by race jockey G...

Good news...Track boss Marty Synan is tipping a perfect racing surface for Friday night's Alister Clark Stakes meeting at Moonee Valley. He expects the track will be rated a dead (4) before a possi...

Have the stewards in WA lost their collective heads? Not content with taking the Railway off He's Remarkable in what surely must be the dodgiest inquiry decision in years, the stewards - obviously ...

Unbeaten Black Caviar was the subject of a $5 million offer this week but connections have opted not to sell. UK based bloodstock agent Grant-Pritchard-Gordon of Badgers Bloodstock made the offer o...

Physical improvement has been identified as the key factor to help Pressday over the line in the Coolmore Stud Stakes.Sydney trainer Chris Waller has set Pressday for a first-up tilt at the 1200-me...