Sudden Shock 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...

RACING’S fraternity today mourned the death of Guy Walter, remembered as not only a champion trainer, but as one of the true gentlemen of the turf. Tributes flowed from all sections of the indust...

Jockey Stathi Katsidis is expected to be sidelined for up to three months after breaking his leg in a track mishap.Katsidis is due to be released from Redlands Hospital on Brisbane's bayside on Thu...

In the final part of a two-part series, P.P.M. reader Sid Bowling, from Argenton, N.S.W., tells how his study of 'mudlark' breeding lines helped him collect last year's Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup...

Not a raceday goes by without one or more horses turning in what we call 'form reversals' and many times these abrupt changes in form are shockers. There seems to be absolutely no reason for the i...