Saw That Coming 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...

Oceanographer has been the biggest firmer to notch a win for the foreign raiders in  Tuesday’s  Melbourne Cup at Flemington.   Starting the day at $21, his strong win in the Lexus saw TAB slas...

HE JUST WAS, THAT'S ALL!So who was the best racehorse in modern times?Southern hemisphere of course, they rarely travelled until recently."Black Caviar" I hear the bleat.She's marvellous. I agree. ...

AND THAT'S HOW IT IS, BOYO.A wonderful English teacher and Welshman named Tom Davies, whom I knew in my youth, would end up every one of wise pronouncements with that telling sentence. "And that's ...

By the time the last race was run and won Zac Purton already had his feet up enjoying a well-deserved beer and a barbecue, but earlier he had struck with a lightning quick four-timer that snapped...

A slow getaway probably cost Aussie sprinter Star Witness a win in the King's Stand Stakes 1000m at Royal Ascot overnight. Star Witness 6/1 settled down last and drove through on the rails to finis...

In the run-up to the HK$14 million Champions Mile, the questions were as much about whether Able Friend was still at his best as they were about whether Luger was good enough to beat him and ...