Sally's Gift Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

NEW ZEALAND whiz-kid James McDonald looks like spending most of the spring in Australia, splitting his time between Sydney and Melbourne, and the in-demand apprentice will ride at Warwick Farm this...

With five city meetings remaining in Sydney, Kiwi whiz kid James McDonald looks set to capture his first Sydney Metropolitan Jockeys Title, reports Racing Network. McDonald will resume riding in ...

Noel Callow is taking another week to gain more fitness before his return to race riding in Melbourne. His manager Reece Murphy says the popular rider, who proved a sensation in Singapore, will rid...

Trainer Ron Macrae has given promising sprinter Regal Castanea a glowing reference ahead of his attempt at a hat-trick of wins at Doomben Saturday.The Toowoomba-based Macrae believes a win from Reg...

Trainer Ron Macrae has given promising sprinter Regal Castanea a glowing reference ahead of his attempt at a hat-trick of wins at Doomben Saturday.The Toowoomba-based Macrae believes a win from Reg...

A victory by Kiwi raider Indikator in Saturday's Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill would almost certainly put paid to trainer Keith Opie's days of travelling across the Tasman.Indikator has raced in Au...