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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...

How much stress do you bring upon yourself by taking your racehorse betting seriously? Lots, says one US psychiatrist, and it doesn't even matter if you're only betting in small-dollar peanuts! ...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

Emerging star Chasm will skip Saturday's Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown and be aimed at next year's Group One Doncaster Handicap.Trainer Heath Conners said the autumn was now a priority for ...

Talented mare Bird Of Fire will go into the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown as the form horse after trainer Tony Vasil decided to extend her spring campaign on the back of two stakes wins.Vas...

Trainer Terry Roles is hoping to lay the foundations for assaults on Tasmania's major cups when Flamburr and Saval Prince ramp up their campaigns at Sandown on Wednesday.Both horses arrived in Melb...