Smarter Than You 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...

Have the stewards in WA lost their collective heads? Not content with taking the Railway off He's Remarkable in what surely must be the dodgiest inquiry decision in years, the stewards - obviously ...

ALTHOUGH a noted lead-up race, yesterday's Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield did little more than further muddy the waters as far as the Australian Guineas is concerned, after an unplaced run from Caulf...

Cobalt outcome...Champion trainer  Peter Moody  says he feels ‘vindicated that we’ve never cheated’ after the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board cleared him of the most serious cobalt charge in...

Trainer Jim Conlan says Rekindled Interest is coming along well for his spring campaign which will begin in Saturday's Group Three Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington.The winner of the Group Two AA...

MOST key groups involved in racing yesterday scoffed at new research from two University of Sydney veterinarians that claims whipping racehorses is pointless and does not make a difference to the o...

Is the Melbourne Cup run and won already? Seems that most people think so. In fact, So You Think is so hot he could end up around the 6/4 mark on Cup Day! But the Cup outcome is never that simple. ...