One More 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...

In the last issue (June PPM) I covered the idea of learning to "talk to the horse" when you get to the races. You'll recall I wrote about the attitude of the horse and I pointed to the fact that m...

This is the second and final extract from James Quinn’s best-selling book The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping, Leading Ideas and Methods, which we have chosen as one of the 10 best racing books ...

Sensible...Racing Victoria has accepted the decision of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board and will not appeal the verdict handed down in the Danny Nikolic case. RVL general manager of integ...

Gathering the LeftoversI have long held the view that the racing on a Monday (or Tuesday!) of a long weekend holiday can be disastrous for the ordinary punter.Occasionally, of course, you'll get a ...

From HK RACING POSTWhen the Jockey Club touts the quality of integrity in Hong Kong racing, most would understand that as ensuring everyone is doing the right thing in races and all reasonable and ...

In a past PPM article I spoke about the importance of formulating a pricing methodology to determine which selections represent value to the invested dollar. Horse-race betting requires a solid ...