Spoilt Rotten Horse

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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

Since the introduction of the "you cannot whip a horse any more than X times at spots Y or any other letter" during a race I have been waiting for the inevitable to happen. After the Australian Cup...

Ready To Lift is off and running for the Melbourne Cup...Her powerful win over 2000m at Rosehill was a clear sign she's right back to her best after 3 runs from a spell. She'll have her next start ...

A whiff of sanity has entered the whip rules crisis...There's been yet another change, and this time it's a good one with jockeys now given discretion to use the whip over the final 100m of a race....

PETER Moody's Anacheeva may have claimed the Prelude, but Damien Oliver says Toorak Toff is the one to beat in the Guineas, reports the Melbourne Herald-Sun.It says: Oliver was effusive in his prai...

Australian Racing Board (ARB) chairman Andrew Harding is standing by the new whip rules but has left the door open for the Australian Jockeys' Association (AJA) to discuss the controversial changes...

We often hear of foolproof methods of winning money at the races. You know the type of thing: I've got a system, guaranteed to make you a winner, anywhere, anytime! Unlimited profits are usually...