Something Sweet 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...

SOMETHING SHORT AND SWEETToday, November 7, Vigor races over a mile (OK then, 1600 metres). He was balloted out of the Melbourne Cup, and the two hopeless types that were allowed in (we were told t...

Spring carnival riches await promising filly Sweet Ella who surprised trainer Greg Eurell with the ease of her win at Sandown on Wednesday.The two-year-old daughter of Niello was coming off an easy...

Parfumier's recent return to the winners' list has trainer Pat Webster in a buoyant mood ahead of the Festival Stakes.The seven-year-old claimed the Goulburn Cup at his most recent start, making am...

Parfumier's recent return to the winners' list has trainer Pat Webster in a buoyant mood ahead of the Festival Stakes.The seven-year-old claimed the Goulburn Cup at his most recent start, making am...

When you’re putting a trifecta, or First 4 combination together, are you always loathe to leave out the short-priced runners? Don’t worry, 99 per cent of punters have the same mindset. Fact is, t...

When you’re putting a trifecta, or First 4 combination together, are you always loathe to leave out the short-priced runners? Don’t worry, 99 per cent of punters have the same mindset. Fact is, t...