Pay For The Thrill 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...

Semi-retired veterinarian Ian Shaw has dabbled in training thoroughbreds for the past 42 years with limited success, but he had his day in the hot Canterbury sun Saturday when winning the New Zeala...

A decision not to roll the dice during the Brisbane winter carnival could pay off in the spring for connections of Rothera who makes his comeback at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Ben Currie has penci...

Veteran New Zealand jockey Noel Harris has scotched any rumours of retirement in the wake of his latest Group One victory in Saturday's Telegraph Handicap.Harris, 55 earlier this month, gave Tim an...

South Australian Libby Hopwood celebrated the biggest thrill of her career when she wore Sheikh Mohammed's colours to victory in an apprentices only race at Canterbury.The 21-year-old gained an ins...

Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...

For many years now, the trifecta has been the "thrill kill" bet for Australia's legion of horse-racing punters. Frankly, we love it. It offers one of the few chances for a big payout for a small ...