Stipulation 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...

Gimme a break! Nash Rawiller will go on holiday after Wednesday's Randwick meeting. He's had enough race riding for the moment, even if it means he misses out on notching 100 Sydney winners this se...

There are some horses you have to sneak up on and back them before they know you have backed them. This type of horse has Superman's x-ray vision because when they see you have backed them they bec...

Nikita Beriman has been outed for 3 months for her ride on Shadow Land at Warrnambool on Nov 4. She was found guilty by stewards of failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures throughou...

The key point that emerges from the Danny Nikolic case is this: Stewards should not lay charges on 'suspicion' alone and expect to get a conviction. That's what the Appeal Board says they did when ...

I've had enough of the vicious, spiteful nonsense oozing from the oily lips of the UK's racing handbag John McCririck, the bloke who dresses up like a clown and spits out venom and hatred against A...

In the circumstances of a crazy-run Derby, the John Moore-trained Dominant was not able to live up to his billing for the classic but he has done enough to suggest he will be a force to reckon with...