Second Guess 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...

Guess what? Stewards have upheld their own protest! Isn't that a surprise! It was Racing NSW's chief steward Ray Murrihy who performed the inevitable. He lodged and then upheld a minor protest on b...

The big Doncaster question is this: Can More Joyous win on a heavy track? The 'facts' say No. She's had 2 goes on heavy and failed both times. Owner John Singleton is certainly concerned that MJ wi...

Chris Waller's first Sydney premiership came sooner than expected for the simple reason he never expected to win one.The Rosehill-based horseman capped his meteoric rise in Sydney when he was crown...

Tony McEvoy  is expecting significant improvement from  Concealer  when she lines up in Saturday’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. The daughter of  Nicconi  is currently r...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

What Did We Learn?The horse ran with the lesser lights and finished a gallant second after having some difficulty getting clear. The distance may have been just too far with the weight.The BIG less...