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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...

Fiddling around with people's lives again...Racing Victoria has put a big question mark over the future of steeplechasing while giving a tentative OK for hurdle racing to continue. The RVL board m...

Can it be true? Racing Victoria is reported to be seriously considering fixing Monday as a day off for racing. At the moment, it's a proposal and, no doubt, the TABcorp mob will want to throw in a ...

A fit and healthy Hay List is ready to resume his career after a lengthy injury break - but maybe not this week.Peter Moody's plan to run Black Caviar in Saturday's Lightning Stakes at Flemington h...

Trainer Leon Corstens will heed the advice of champion jockey Damien Oliver and continue Zabeelionaire's campaign to next month's Group One Queensland Derby.Oliver rode the colt to victory over Sab...

Consistent stakes-class mare Lady Lynette will be looking to round out her racing career a millionaire in the Myer Classic at Flemington.Trained by father and son Tasmanians David and Scott Brunton...

Trainer Joe Pride is resigned to starting Stradbroke Handicap first emergency Ladys Angel in Saturday's June Stakes at Randwick to keep her winter program on track.The mare, who is in Sydney, would...