Sapphire Blue 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...

Flemington trainer Nigel Blackiston will play a double hand at Caulfield in a bid to win his second feature race for the week.Blackiston, who prepared last Monday's St Leger Stakes winner Right Of ...

Lee Freedman says last-start Morphettville winner Spatha may have an edge on promising stablemate Baptism as the Hall of Fame trainer attempts to win his third Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield.Fre...

Exciting South Australian galloper Iconic showed he is on track for the feature three-year-old sprints this Spring with an impressive first-up victory at Caulfield. Improved from his autumn camp...

Unraced filly Elucidate will fly the flag for leading trainer Peter Moody in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield after stablemate Flokkati was confirmed for Adelaide's Dequetteville Stakes...

Unraced filly Elucidate will fly the flag for leading trainer Peter Moody in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield after stablemate Flokkati was confirmed for Adelaide's Dequetteville Stakes...

A total of 181 two year-olds remain entered for the $1 million Group 1 Sportingbet Blue Diamond Stakes (Feb 22) after second declarations were taken by the Melbourne Racing Club. The number, a fiv...