Scary 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...

Sometimes naming a horse has unforeseen repercussions. Much like Cyberdyne Systems' 'Skynet' network in Terminator II, if the animal/robot in question becomes 'self-aware', so to speak, they might ...

Hay List had nothing more to give - except a major fright for his jockey and odds-on punters - before claiming the $175,000 Challenge Stakes at Warwick Farm on Sunday.Australia's second-best sprint...

Nathan Berry is confident of giving his career a timely boost on Saturday by landing his first stakes victory as a senior rider.Berry, who finished his apprenticeship in April, believes Skyerush ha...

THE Victorian Racing Club is hoping that Black Caviar could provide it with its most successful Super Saturday since the decision in 2005 to run the Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup on the sam...

Darley’s super-star filly Guelph gave all of her potential rivals a hint of what may be to come with a slashing win at the Rosehill trials on Tuesday.

Bad news to start the week...Vinery Stud says that 2009/2010 Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy died on Monday morning shortly after delivering her first foal. Tracy was retired from racing...