Shut It Down 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...

Trainer Mick Kent has come up with an interesting idea...Shut down racing in Victoria in July each year! Mick reckons the tracks need a rest and so do many of the jockeys and trainers. He points to...

Oh dear, how will they get along without him? Tabcorp has announced its managing director of wagering Robert Nason will quit the company at the end of the year. Nason has been at the forefront of T...

Trainer Gary Portelli is concerned the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes could develop into a "leaders' benefit race" and in the process shut down his two-pronged attack of Delago Bolt and Romanu...

The Epsom Handicap meeting is expected to get the green light to go ahead at Randwick when the board of the Australian Turf Club meets on Monday.Randwick was shut down at the end of last month when...

Angry trainers want Racing Queensland to intervene to help save their livelihoods from cutbacks which threaten to close Doomben as a training venue.A meeting attended by about 60 trainers from both...

Angry trainers want Racing Queensland to intervene to help save their livelihoods from cutbacks which threaten to close Doomben as a training venue.A meeting attended by about 60 trainers from both...