Simmering 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 Rob Heathcote begins his assault on the Doomben summer series when Excellantes and Work The Room clash in their comebacks at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The pair, along with stablemate Captain C...

That simmering row over the proposed merger of the AJC and STC continues to create division....Ken Callander, veteran scribbler and father of TVN's one-man vaudeville act Richard Callander, says in...

Oh, oh, now they're picking on Bart...Racing NSW boss Peter V'landys reckons he's going to speak with Chief Steward Ray Murrihy in regard to the comments by Bart Cummings about the simmering whip r...

Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander has had another go at the Australian Racing Board over the simmering whip debacle. In his Daily Telegraph column, KC says: 'The whip rule has to be changed. No ...

RACING'S television wars - simmering for the past nine months - are about to boil over with Sky Channel set to announce its own premium thoroughbred channel, reports the Daily Telegraph. It says: S...

  More Joyous, the horse at the centre of a high-profile feud between owner John Singleton and trainer Gai Waterhouse, has been retired...