Opportunistic 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...

Patinack Farm's promising 3YO Onemorenomore likely to be retired to stud after scans on a serious leg injury revealed he'd have to be sidelined for 12 months.Don't rock the boat, Jimmy...Jim Cassid...

The whip rules saga has moved to another weird level with Chief NSW stipe Ray Murrihy warning jockeys that they could not rely on compensation from owners or trainers for breaking the controversial...

Rocking Force's attempt to dump Mandy Shillito in the surf during a beach work-out has buoyed the trainer's confidence ahead of the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington.After a trip to Adela...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

In the first article in this series, I talked about the difficulties of framing your own betting market on a race - and advised you of ways and means to do so. This article takes the subject furth...