Strasmore 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...

Stephanie Nigge, who has been looking after French stayers Shahwardi and Americain for trainer Alain de Royer Dupre, says Shahwardi has thrived since his Herbert Power win, but she finds it difficu...

Britain's foremost racing expert Philip Alexander concludes his two-part feature on the legendary punter Phil Bull, founder of the Timeform organisation and one of the UK's greatest professional p...

A punter MUST expect to win overall but he must also expect to lose along the way. Last month we got ourselves up to the middle of the 1990s. I’d like to pick up from there. My best win of all was...

There's an old saying that you should always remember when you are punting: When in doubt, stay out. There are many punters who would have been wealthy people today if they had followed that advic...

There's an old saying that you should always remember when you are punting: When in doubt, stay out. There are many punters who would have been wealthy people today if they had followed that advic...

Few punters would argue against the statement that says staking is MORE important than selection in the battle to win at horse-racing. Some might say that both are equally important. I tend to di...