Really Something 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...

It might have taken Always Something three years to get himself back in the winner's circle, but he can strike while the iron is hot with a light weight and a good draw in the Rotary Centenary Chal...

A new-found maturity has the optimistically-named Something Anything on the verge of realising a dream for his owners in the Group Two Villiers Stakes.The five-year-old beat a small but classy fiel...

Something Anything's Villiers Stakes success has his team dreaming of Group One glory.The five-year-old has taken a long time to live up to trainer Gary Portelli's belief in his ability but he now ...

NO NOTHING THIS WEEK.Sorree! Yes of course you can get "something," if you want.But what I really wanted to ask you is if you'd ever gone a week without deciding on a bet.Many punters haven't.Here'...

Brendan Delaney is used to calling races across Victoria, whether at thoroughbred trials at Cranbourne or Tatura, or the greyhounds at Warrnambool. But his lifelong passion for race calling is ab...

Those Oakleigh Plate weights are really causing a stir...Peter Moody has joined Gai Waterhouse in firing a missile at them. He has 4 runners in the big sprint but he reckons Lucky Secret is 'the we...