Pretty Dandy 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...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths says Beltrois is well placed to go into next month's Group One Goodwood Handicap as a last-start Caulfield winner.The four-year-old takes on eight other Goodwood contenders...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths says Beltrois is well placed to go into next month's Group One Goodwood Handicap as a last-start Caulfield winner.The four-year-old takes on eight other Goodwood contenders...

The pretty Doomben course has a straight of 354 metres. It is the smaller of the two tracks in Brisbane, but try to tell that to anyone watching the final furlong or so of the Doomben Ten Thousa...

Lightly-raced five-year-old Zedi Knight will be looking to make up for lost time this campaign after he was sidelined in the spring after just one run.The winner of five of his eight starts, Zedi K...

Lightly-raced five-year-old Zedi Knight will be looking to make up for lost time this campaign after he was sidelined in the spring after just one run.The winner of five of his eight starts, Zedi K...

Betting is all about percentages. A bookie makes a 'percentage book' and punters try to beat him. The bookie, then, is much like the manager of a supermarket - he puts up prices which he hopes t...