Road To The City 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...

The talented but erratic Hard Liquor will be out to enhance his Villiers Stakes prospects when he shoots for back-to-back city wins on Saturday.The four-year-old was described by Anthony Cummings' ...

A truck carrying several of Bart Cummings' Sydney autumn carnival contenders is due to arrive from Melbourne on Monday morning.On the float will be Faint Perfume, Sirmione, Moatize and Rock Classic...

Time away from the racetrack will be the making of Eye Of The Needle but trainer Keith Dryden sees no reason why the unfurnished galloper won't continue his winning run on Wednesday."Certainly he's...

Jason McLachlan declared he was still learning the training trade after speedster Silvern broke through for his first city win in almost a year at Eagle Farm.Silvern, ridden by Eddie Wilkinson, led...

Fledgling trainer Jarrod Austin wasn't sure the day would ever come when he would have the chance to take stable favourite Keen Commander back to the races.But his wait is almost over with Keen Com...

It has been a long road back but trainer Kim Waugh believes Kimillsy is on the verge of another race victory.That could come as early as Saturday at Rosehill with Waugh electing to run the five-yea...