Perception 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...

There's already fiery feedback from the Sal Perna report into racing's so-called darker side... Victorian Jockeys Association CEO Des O'Keefe vehemently disagrees with Perna's finding that the "per...

From NEIL FRANKLYNDEVERRA5m : S Lucock : Byerley10 starts : 2 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : DeadThis mare had done little to attract my attention du...

Is a whiff of reality seeping into racing officialdom as the crisis boils over those bizarre new whip rules? Racing NSW chief Peter V'landys admits: 'Naturally, as an administrator, I'm very concer...

The merger of Sydney's two race clubs is set to go ahead despite a Sydney Turf Club members' vote rejecting the proposal last week.The board of the STC advised its members and NSW racing minister K...

Next month’s meeting between the South Australian Jockeys Association and Thoroughbred Racing South Australia will determine the future of jumps racing at Morphettville. SAJC CEO Brenton Wilki...

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...