October 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...

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Punters are warming to a local Melbourne Cup chance with Jameka ($8.00), the only Australian bred horse in the field, best backed with TAB today. The third elect has had 18% of the money today, w...

Wednesday morning trackwork at Werribee generally took on a more sedate nature today compared to yesterday morning. Although the wind still made the conditions a little chilly, it wasn’t as much ...

The Group Three Celebration Cup has been the scene of some upset results and Tony Millard-trained Super Lifeline has a chance to spring one more against the big names at Sha Tin this afternoon, r...