Simply Deep 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...

Deep Field lost his unbeaten record at his sixth start and first run at Group 1 level in Saturday’s $500,000 Lightning Stakes (1000m) with co-trainer John Hawkes saying he “simply wasn’t good enou...

Tony Vasil doesn't normally throw his horses in at the deep end but it was easy to see why he ran two-year-old filly Psychologist on debut in the Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield.The Choisir filly...

Rejuvenated Boban ended a 27-year drought for Epsom Handicap winners when he added the Emirates Stakes to an imposing CV.  After starting his spring preparation in a benchmark 90 race, Boban has ...

Some years ago, research was done into the profitability of certain 'angles' of selections. Recently, I had time to expand that initial research. I think the results are most interesting. Like m...

Some years ago, research was done into the profitability of certain 'angles' of selections. Recently, I had time to expand that initial research. I think the results are most interesting. Like m...

Some years ago, research was done into the profitability of certain 'angles' of selections. Recently, I had time to expand that initial research. I think the results are most interesting. Like m...