Punching 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...

In the second article in this series, PPM editor Brian Blackwell continues his analysis of recent results, and this month looks at a couple of big-race winners. Taking a ‘leap of faith’ is often ...

Trainer Tony Vasil has described six-year-old Lucky Secret as an underrated sprinter more than capable of mixing it with the best in Friday night's Group One Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley.Former...

Paul Messara isn't going to Randwick on Saturday expecting to win the Group One Champagne Stakes with Rowie.But the emotions will flow if the unexpected happens.Rowie is a $71 chance in a race domi...

How  to define class? Yes, it's that age-old handicapping issue and one that despite the many changing classifications of races we've had in recent years remains an ongoing riddle. How can we com...