Summer Breeze 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...

An overdue win by Absent Friends at Rosehill has boosted trainer Gary Portelli's hopes the five-year-old can live up to his potential this spring.Earlier this month, stablemate Something Anything h...

Absent Friends' Metropolitan Handicap credentials go on the line in Saturday's Colin Stephen Quality at Randwick.The Group Three race is run over 2400 metres, the same distance as Saturday week's M...

For the first time in four starts Absent Friends will not jump from the outside barrier when he lines up in the Group Three Premier's Cup at Doomben on Saturday.The four-year-old has barrier eight ...

For the first time in four starts Absent Friends will not jump from the outside barrier when he lines up in the Group Three Premier's Cup at Doomben on Saturday.The four-year-old has barrier eight ...

A nightmare barrier means Absent Friends chances of winning the Group Three Chairman's Handicap at Doomben on Saturday rest purely in the hands of Brisbane's premier ride Jim Byrne.Trainer Gary Por...

The staying credentials of Absent Friends go on the line in Saturday's Kingston Town Stakes with the Rosehill race to determine his path this spring.The five-year-old has not won beyond 1600 metres...