Pocket Size 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...

The best advice any punter can take on board is that which urges him to protect his own pocket. It's advice that the majority of punters dare to defy, usually at their own expense. Certainly, we'...

Hi all,Back and refreshed and lighter in the pocket from frolicking around Coolangatta and a dabble in the Stradbroke. Great to cheer home Black Piranha even though I lost on the race: I wondered p...

Hi all,Back and refreshed and lighter in the pocket from frolicking around Coolangatta and a dabble in the Stradbroke. Great to cheer home Black Piranha even though I lost on the race: I wondered p...

Answer the following question with 100 per cent honesty: Do you have  an  actual BANK for your betting? That is, a set parcel of money purely for betting. I know most punters will answer NO (if t...

Answer the following question with 100 per cent honesty: Do you have  an  actual BANK for your betting? That is, a set parcel of money purely for betting. I know most punters will answer NO (if t...

From RACING POST HKTaking a risk and double banking the two least experienced horses in the field will pay off in the middle leg of tomorrow's Triple Trio at Sha Tin, with sprinters Blue Caviar and...