Requisite 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...

Making the step into Class One for the first time is never easy but few horses make the transition off a platform as spectacular as Golden Harvest's lead-up victory on the way to the Happy Valley...

British Champions Series officials hope there will be four Group One prizes on Champions Day next year.The brilliant display of the mighty Frankel in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth II Stakes was the un...

1025 yearlings have been nominated for the 2014 edition of the $1 million Group 1 Sportingbet Blue Diamond Stakes, with entries closed by the Melbourne Racing Club this week.

There's been no sign of cider at Tulloch Lodge - only champagne - after an utterly dominant autumn carnival. Pierro's golden run, Laser Hawk's emergence, More Joyous' greatest triumph and a string ...

Young Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams would have to be one of the nicest guys in racing, and after Uxorious' gutsy win in the time-honoured Wangoom Handicap yesterday, the one they call 'Beetr...

The idea of deriving your income solely from wagering on horses has been predominantly viewed by society as an ethically objectionable career choice. The inexorable link between racing and gambl...