Shambles 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...

Another shambles...Two major European quarantine centres have been declared unsuitable by Australian officials - and that means international horses may not be able to run in this year's Melbourne ...

Another shambles...The Melbourne Herald Sun reports: 'Bureaucratic red tape threatens the entry of international horses in this year?s Melbourne spring carnival. Racing Victoria Limited have been ...

Growing complaints about the new TVN-Big Pond Racing Network website...Talk about slow, cumbersome and unreliable! This one's got the lot. TVN does a lot of crowing about being top of racing's tree...

Final approval next week...That's the prediction about the shambles of a row between Racing Victoria and the Aussie Quarantine Service. The Age reports: Fierce obbying appears to have drawn all par...

Racetrack attendances - or lack of them - continue to nag away at the sport's image and future. Veteran scribbler Max Presnell is among the worried racing diehards. In his SMH column, Max opines: '...

Japan's Victoire Pisa has won the Dubai World Cup overtaking Transcend to win the world's richest horse race and offer hope to a country struggling to recover from twin disasters.From the moment th...