Perfect Test Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

Boom colt Didntcostalot has come back stronger and smarter as he prepares for his biggest test at Warwick Farm on Saturday.The undefeated three-year-old will aptly resume in a race sponsored by his...

The Peter Snowden stable believes Saturday is the perfect time for Pied A Terre to take on older horses and tackle a black-type race for the first time in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington....

Nick Olive has been looking to test Voice Commander over 2000 metres and says he's found the perfect opportunity to do it in Saturday's Listed Frank Underwood Cup.Olive has also accepted for Monday...

The Gold Coast has been a happy hunting ground for David Pfieffer and he is hoping Magic Millions Guineas favourite Safusa can keep it that way.The Sydney trainer has an unblemished record at the t...

Regular jockey Luke Nolen has put a concise seal of approval on champion mare Black Caviar as she prepares to step into uncharted territory at Caulfield on Saturday.After riding the mare in her fin...

Craig Williams' prediction that Response had a big future will be put to the test when she resumes in the Group Three Cockram Stakes at Caulfield.The four-year-old mare impressed the champion jocke...