Second Thought 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...

English trainer Ed Dunlop is already planning another Melbourne Cup bid with his courageous runner-up Red Cadeaux. Dunlop was shattered after Red Cadeaux was edged out in a photo by French stayer D...

With the Black Caviar bandwaggon de-wheeled

SECOND declarations for the Melbourne Cup close on Monday and the squeeze is itensifying for the final spots in the $6.2 million nation-stopping race. As usual the Cup landscape can shift dramati...

International star Sea Moon has pulled up sore after his Australian debut in Saturday's Makybe Diva at Flemington. Owner Lloyd Williams said it would be another week before any decision was made ...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...