Packing Smart 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...

Bauer's becoming an Aussie...Whether he makes the Melbourne Cup field or not, 2008 runner-up Bauer is not going back to the UK. He'll remain in Australia where he'll probably have another racing ca...

Well, here we go: the carnival is starting to warm up. This weekend the races at Caulfield and Rosehill are starting to tantalize serious punters. How is Tickets, a major player in the Autumn, goin...

Leading trainer Peter Moody is considering a start in the Perth Cup for Elusive King, winner of Saturday's Comic Court Handicap at Flemington on protest.The Elusive Quality four-year-old suffered s...

Improving stayer Rubiquin faces his toughest test to date when he runs in the $100,000 Comic Court Handicap (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday.The Rubiton five-year-old, prepared at Seymour by Geoff...

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