Smart Talk 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...

Michael Rodd is talking the talk about his Melbourne Cup mount Red Cadeaux. He reckons 'Red' ticks plenty of boxes in any form appraisal and considers him a 'strong chance' in the big race. He says...

LEADING owner Lloyd Williams instructed jockey Michael Rodd not to speak to TVN after Zipping scored his third consecutive Sandown Classic yesterday, reports the Sunday Age.It says: Earlier, Tinter...

A pre-race pep talk from Larry Cassidy helped teenage apprentice Ashley Butler score the biggest win of his career in the National Apprentice Series Handicap at Doomben on Wednesday.Butler, 19, is ...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

All the talk about a bog track for the Doncaster on Saturday could be just that...talk. Latest reports say there's a good chance, if the weather stays rainfree, that the Randwick track could be rat...