One Kind 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...

The luxury of a kind draw in a race where draws can be so unkind looks the edge that Richard Gibson-trained  Gold-Fun  needs to land the $12 million Champions Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday afternoon, ...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh has called a halt to stable star Shocking's autumn campaign, saying he won't race again until the spring.The 2009 Melbourne Cup winner pulled up "a bit jarry and scratchy" aft...

"Don't spray 'em, mate," might well be the advice of a seasoned bettor to a raw novice entering the betting fray for the first time. And what might he mean by that? Simple - the pro is telling the...

"Don't spray 'em, mate," might well be the advice of a seasoned bettor to a raw novice entering the betting fray for the first time. And what might he mean by that? Simple - the pro is telling the...

UK trainer Mark Johnston (remember Double Trigger?) has made a snide attack on Scenic Blast in the wake of the Aussie sprinter's demolition of the King's Stand at Royal Ascot. Johnston, who rarely ...

OH THAT KNOCKOUT HORSE!Brian refers to a different kind of knockout horse. Mine are those ###***!!!%%'s that come along and blouse your Trifecta, or your First Four, or, worst of all, the final leg...