Stray 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...

Hurtle Myrtle has pleased Matthew Smith in the 48 hours since her Eagle Farm win but her recovery isn't enough to convince the trainer to stray from a two-start Brisbane program.On the back of a we...

WENDY ROCHE believes in second chances - it's one of the many reasons she has spent the past eight months of her life rehabilitating Here De Angels, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. It says: All ...

Besieged By Races!Yes, I headed this blog "racing" but maybe it's racES.Great Jumpin' Jehosaphat! HOW MANY?There are dozens today (Friday), both metropolitan and other, and (it seems) hundreds of t...

Jockeys will be allowed to use their discretion over the final 100 metres of a race after the Australian Racing Board (ARB) bowed to pressure from industry stakeholders to change the new whip rules...

Time Thief pleased Lee Freedman in a jumpout at his Markdel training establishment on Tuesday ahead of the classy colt taking on multiple Group One winners Weekend Hussler and Apache Cat in Saturda...

Globetrotting trainer Richard Gibson has had some interesting experiences in his travels with horses around the world with his next to come at Flemington on Tuesday when he saddles up Varevees, the...