Star Hero 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...

Good to see Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden is back racing again in the UK this weekend. Dunaden will make his first appearance for 2012 on Sat night when he tackles the Grp 2 Qatar Bloodstock Jockey ...

New Hong Kong star Bear Hero, a $140,000 Magic Millions purchase, could make a Grp 1 raid on the Coolmore in Australia. Bear Hero, an impressive winner at Sha Tin on Saturday, is a high class perfo...

  Melbourne Cup hero  Dunaden  has been retired after injuring himself in training. The now eight-year-old French-trained star won the 2011 Melbourne Cup, then came back to Australia the followi...

We will never know whether  Flame Hero  would have won had he gained clear running last start, but with a suitable step up in trip and against a weaker Happy Valley field, the Peter Ho Leung-train...

The John Moore-trained  Rewarding Hero  still has plenty to learn and, from a good draw, he can absorb a hike in the handicaps and salute as a banker in the final leg of the Triple Trio at Sha ...

David Hayes flew out of Melbourne early yesterday to supervise Nicconi's tilt at international glory in England later this month, but the Nicconi team will still keep an eye on the opening event at...