Overrated 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...

Halle Rocks will be looking to restore some faith at Moonee Valley after she tarnished her unbeaten record with a shock defeat last start.Trainer Mick Price said he was forced to "eat humble pie" a...

Trainer John Wallace has heard it all and isn't letting critics of last year's AJC Australian Derby winner Shoot Out get under his skin.Shoot Out, who lines up for his last run this campaign in Sat...

Trainer Joe Janiak put all his pre-race concerns to rest as he applied the finishing touches to the preparation of his champion sprinter Takeover Target for Sunday's KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore.J...

Trainer Joe Janiak put all his pre-race concerns to rest as he applied the finishing touches to the preparation of his champion sprinter Takeover Target for Sunday's KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore.J...

Trainer Joe Janiak put all his pre-race concerns to rest as he applied the finishing touches to the preparation of his champion sprinter Takeover Target for Sunday's KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore.J...

In his best-selling book, Money Secrets At The Racetrack, the US handicapping guru Barry Meadow makes the point that in betting the actual task of picking winners is overrated. Rightly, he stress...