Smartest 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...

Tactical nous, as much as racetrack talent, is expected to decide the highly-anticipated $1 million Golden Rose on Saturday.While numbers are down on past editions of Sydney's richest spring race, ...

Jason McLachlan declared he was still learning the training trade after speedster Silvern broke through for his first city win in almost a year at Eagle Farm.Silvern, ridden by Eddie Wilkinson, led...

By CLIVE ALLOCK, PPM columnist It was a  trip down that memory lane to see The Optimist ask in the last issue of Practical Punting if I still was a win  punter as opposed to the many other option...

While Australia can lay to claim to having some of the best thoroughbreds in the world, its betting industry – one of the fundamental elements of racing – is many lengths inferior to that of oth...